+1 Everyone here who likes the general idea of a C++ type of language (HLASM and PL/I zealots need not apply!) but dislikes some or many of the specifics of C++ should check out Go. (The name of the language, as I understand it, is Go. Unfortunately the word Go is pretty heavily overloaded, which tends to make people call the language by the unambiguous name Golang. Golang.org is the Web site.) It is a compiled language, unlike Python.
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jack J. Woehr Sent: Saturday, May 9, 2020 9:54 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Developers say Google's Go is 'most sought after' programming language of 2020 On 5/9/20 1:58 AM, Wayne Bickerdike wrote: > Nearly as good as YAL (Yet Another Language). > > Well I downloaded, ran some code. Yawn. What's an old guy to do? Don't underestimate Golang. It's an amazing language. It's like the genetically groomed offspring of C++ and Java with the best traits of both and the warts removed. Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson were on the design team. One of those "If we had known then what we know now" moments for the fathers of C. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
