Phil Deets Wrote: > On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:09:13 -0500, Justin Johansson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Knud Soerensen Wrote: > > > >> Google have made a new language. > >> > >> See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKnDgT73v8s > > > > Some of the people in the Go team include Ken Thompson and Rob Pike. > > > > As a matter of interest these people have been mentioned in a few past D > > NG articles. > > Apparently Ken Thompson designed UTF-8. > > > > Sorry if I'm stating something you already know, but Ken Thompson also was > one of the main creators of UNIX.
Thanks. I had forgotten that. Whenever a new language comes on the horizon, it's useful to know exactly who are the people behind it. I tried watching the YT video but, as unfortunately my Three mobile broadband is just so s l o w, I stopped after 10 mins. (Anybody thinking of Three in your neck of the woods for broadband forget it.) Anyway I think the speaker (Rob Pike) said something along the lines that "no new systems programming language has been developed in the last ten years" and there was no mention of D (at least that I picked up). Wonder if they ever looked at D or if Walter knows any of these people apart from just name? Justin
