>From what I hear I'm guessing go is designed as a replacement for C. As in, for situations where you'd currently use C and not java or python. So, kernels and device drivers. Given that google is doing the chrome OS thing, and given that it's the authors of unix of all things that are behind this language, that makes some sense.
I, personally, don't care, as that's not the kind of programming I do, but coming up with something that's a lot better than C has got to be a nice thing for those who DO care. And, in such an environment, manually checking error codes isn't that bad. Which means there's only one thing that is really really stupid about the go programming language: The name. It's not just a silly name that is not searchable, it's also the name of an existing obscure programming language. That guy is understandably pissed. I would be, even if my little toy language is languishing in obscurity, and even if I'm beating myself up for picking such a silly name, it's morally incorrect for google to just waltz all over his name because they are bigger. I'll be using this as a litmus test of google's Don't Be Evil mantra. They are still in the phase that they can do the right thing here and swap names. Internally it would cause the most friction if they do it now. Wait until later and the name is going to stick forever, so, if they don't switch, then google became a bit more evil, and that mantra will pretty much be an irrelevant pretty thing to put on a poster someplace, not something anybody at google actually uses to make decisions. Shame, really. Google gets a lot of free passes from the tech community because of them following that mantra. On Nov 11, 10:18 am, Fabrizio Giudici <[email protected]> wrote: > Casper Bang wrote: > > Not nearly as interesting as Fan. However, gofmt is probably handy in > > the toolchain of large organizations - to prevent Tor from using > > space instead of tab. :) > > > /Casper > > LOL. Apart from Casper's comment, for me go seems to be a big yawn. > > -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici -www.tidalwave.it/people > [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
