> C++ type of language
I have no idea what that means
Warts inherited from C?
Object Oriented?
The same object model as C++?
The same STL as C++?
> HLASM and PL/I zealots need not apply!
Why? Are you prejudiced against us? Many of us are just as open to new
languages as people who don't like HLASM and PL/I, and far more open than some
of those.
The name is too close to "Go!", which was there first, but the name still is
Go, not golang. Golang.org is only the domain name.
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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+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
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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.
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