On Wednesday, 13 August 2014 at 11:03:41 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
On Wednesday, 13 August 2014 at 10:03:35 UTC, Chris wrote:
On Tuesday, 12 August 2014 at 16:43:18 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
If Google dropped Go tomorrow, there would be immediate
backing for new
management of a fork.
Sure, and we would have Go+, GNUGo, FreeGo (discontinued)
and whatnot, each having a different philosophy. There would
be flame wars on the internet and nobody would know which
kind of Go to use.
Just like any open language implementation out there.
CRuby vs JRuby vs RubyMotion vs ...
CPython vs Jython vs ...
Clang vs gcc vs msvc vs icc vs aC++ vs xlc vs ....
Or for that matter
Dmd vs ldc vs gdc
Which is not what I meant. For Python and C etc there is still
one reference implementation of the language, regardless of
compilers or additional frameworks. What I meant were
different _implementations_ of the language with different
features and libraries, like Phobos and Tango (back in the
day). That might happen to Go, if Google let it, well, go.
There isn't such a thing as one reference implementation for C,
given the amount of undefined and unspecified behavior in the
standard.
To the point many C developers mistakenly take their compiler
behavior, and extensions, as what to expect from the standard.
--
Paulo
But you can start to program in standard C99 and be sure that in
99% of all cases it will compile and work. Same goes for Python
and PHP etc. Remember Phobos vs. Tango? This must have put a lot
of people off back then.
