Good language to learn? Unless you have some way to predict the vagaries of fashion, pick languages that suit the tasks you want to deal with and that are available on your platforms. Don't choose or rule out Go based on its current or predicted popularity.
Python certainly has a lot of eyeballs, although I'm still seeing calls for PHP, which I had thought would be dead by now. Python and Ruby have respectable libraries of packages. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of scott Ford [[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, May 9, 2020 2:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Developers say Google's Go is 'most sought after' programming language of 2020 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
