Nick Sabalausky Wrote: > "Anders F Björklund" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected]... > > Justin Johansson wrote: > > > >> 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? > > > > They started the project in "late 2007", which is one year after D was > > released. So I guess D is not considered a "new major systems language". > > > > "By mid 2008 the language was mostly designed and the implementation > > (compiler, run-time) starting to work." --from the Go Tech talk slides > > > > --anders > > I was using D well before late 2006 (and never had any sort of special > non-public access). > > From some of the stuff I saw on the tutorial page, I noticed a few things > that seemed like they could easily have been inspired from D. > > Of course, being a longtime D user, that "no new systems programming > language has been developed in the last ten years" kinda pisses me > off...Although not as pissed as I'll be if the connection with google causes > its use and popularity to soar past D...from the example code it looks like > D but with a really garbled and annoying syntax. Did you read the FAQ? This will really piss you off :-(
"What is the purpose of the project?" http://golang.org/doc/go_faq.html Slashdotters are pretty quick to the announcement as well, just today ... http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/11/11/0210212/Go-Googles-New-Open-Source-Programming-Language How many comments to you think this story got over there?
