Welcome to the Go Programming Language, where you take grids of trinary input, marked by either blank, black, or white intersections, as a form of punchcard programming. 
Like any good introduction to a new coding language, here is…
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@trohde in case including “/joke” in the title is not obvious enough, Tom, I just wanted to let you know that this thread is a joke 
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To avoid confusion perhaps this should be called the weiqi or baduk language
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confusion with what 
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Think you meant [The Go programming langauge](https://golang.org/) 
They must have copied my idea! 
Google are sneaky like that 
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I got it eventually 
Only took three tries
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How do you think I got 88 commits to OGS
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That sounds like every program I’ve ever written.
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@RubyMineshaft did you decode my image from OP yet?
Writing functional, error free code on the first attempt is for suckers 
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No! Let me give it some thought 
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I have no exposure to trinary input but…
Don't want to spoil the fun
based on:
I could make an educated guess 
It would probably be very likely correct my hint was far from subtle for anyone who’s experienced coding tutorials
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If I can find a good intro to trinary I’d like to actually do the decoding
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I cheated and used this 
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In that case, yes I was correct 
Found this funny on the Go site:
No spoilers!
Hello, 世界 
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Spoiler
Python:
# Empty = 0, B = 1, W = 2
array = ['02200', '10202', '11000', '11000', '11010', '01012', '10020', '11010', '11020', '11000', '10201', '01020']
str=""
for trit in array:
str += chr(int(trit, 3))
print str
I like the way that ‘print’ seems to be implicit in this language when given a string of character literals
Yeah it’s really more of a code than a programming language but then the joke doesn’t work 
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