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In the latest version of Ubuntu, the go language tools may be already available in the repos. In that case try,

   sudo apt-get install golang

If it is not working, add go tools PPA and install it.

Go is a language developed at google. The golang programs are generally having the extension '.go'.

So this is how we run a golang program.

Golang is a language developed at Google. More information can be found at the wikipedia page.

Go has an easy tool called gofmt  to format the code blocks of go program in easy readable format.

Here is the command to format the golang program using gofmt   and save it to the corresponding file.