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GO

The search giant ‘Google’, already played a big part in the areas like search, mail, operating systems, advertising and mapping. Now this company aimed to help computer programmers by introducing a new programming language named ‘Go’. It is developed by Ken Thompson, Rob Pike and Robert Griesemer by taking influences from C++ and Python. This new programming language aims to combine speedy application development through simplified coding with high-speed program execution. Gordon, the gopher is the official mascot of ‘Go’. ‘Go’ is very simple like C and C++ and its compilers produce fast code, and we can run it very quickly as comparable to C or C++ code. It is type safe and memory safe, and it is designed for building software that runs on multi-core machines. ‘Go’ has pointers but no pointer arithmetic. Systems and servers are written as lightweight processes called goroutines. We can run Run thousands of goroutines instead of stack overflows. It has two compilers, gccgo which uses a GCC back end and a suite of architecture specific compilers. In addition, it has fast builds, clean syntax, garbage collection, methods for any type, true closures and run-time reflection. With these features, it feels like a dynamic language, but it provides the speed and safety of a static language. It is very simple and easy to use. It is more versatile and it could even be used within Web browsers. In the future, it will replace JavaScript to run software in a Web browser. Hopes that it will solve problems of the existing languages such as Java and C++.

MARAT SAFIN

Former No.1 tennis player Marat Safin ended his 12 year tennis career after losing in the second round of the Paris Masters. In the second round of the ‘Paris Masters’ tennis tournament, Safin was defeated by US Open champion Juan Martín del Potro with the score 6-4, 5-7, 6-4. He is the winner of two grand slam titles and held the no.1 position in 2000. Other pecualariy of him is that he is the older brother of current World No.1 player Dinara Safina.

BIOGRAPHY

Russian tennis player Marat Safin was born on 27th January, 1980 in Moscow, Russia as the son of tennis players Mikhail Alexeivich Safin and Rauza Islanova. His younger sister, Dinara Safina is also a World No 1 tennis player. He started to play tennis at the age of six and he turned to professional tennis player in 1997. In 2000, he was in World no.1 rank position for nine weeks. He create a history in Russian tennis in 2000 by winning the US Open championship. He defeated Pete Sampras in the final of this championship and it was his first first Grand Slam title. He also entered in the final of the ‘Australian Open’ in 2002, 2004, and 2005. He was defeated in 2002 and 2004, but he won the ‘2005 Australian Open’ by defeating his country mate Lleyton Hewitt. He helped the Russian team to won ‘Davis Cup’ in 2002 and 2006. He reached in the semi final of ‘2002 French Open’ and ‘2008 Wimbledon’ championship. Due the serious knee-injury, he missed the ‘2005 US Open’, ‘2005 Tennis Masters Cup’ and ‘2006 Australian Open’, but he played in ‘2006 ATP Masters tournaments’. He cannot be able to play more tournaments due to injuries. His last Grand Slam appearance was at the ‘US Open 2009′ in which he lost in first round to Austrian Jurgen Melzer. Now, Safin ended his tennis career with a second-round defeat by Juan Martin Del Potro in ‘Paris Masters’ tennis tournament. Safin is well known for his emotional attacks and smashing of rackets during matches. He is also known for having arguments with the chair umpires. In addition, he had the ability to won the hearts of fans, media and colleagues. He is a model for many fashion magazines and advertisements.