Charles, I heard Go was supposed to be a good language to learn. Interestingly, I read an article saying Python will take over from Java. Personally, I learned Python liked it over java. I have to look at Go.
Scott On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 1:44 PM Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > +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 > -- Scott Ford IDMWORKS z/OS Development ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
