On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Steven Herod <[email protected]>wrote:
> > Personally I look forward to a day when the industry doesn't stand > around Google like a toilet training toddler, applauding and cheering > every time something gets 'delivered'. > Agreed. But if Google is going to do something, I would much rather see them throw their weight behind an established language for multicore like Scala or Clojure, instead of tossing out another 20% project. HST, if the goal of Go was system-level programming, then it would make sense to avoid the JVM, so those languages might not be an option. I went through the whole tutorial yesterday and I'm not overly impressed. The syntax is sort of a clunky amalgamation of C + Python. It's easy to get confused on when to use = vs. := and the error message you get when you use := when you should have used = isn't overly helpful. It's also not entirely clear when semicolons are required and when they are optional. I do like that it has literals for arrays and maps, and the coroutine stuff looks pretty good, I guess. I also like that you can return multiple arguments from function calls. And it has command-line argument processing built in! :-) I'll reserve judgment until I know more, but I'm not abandoning my other tools just yet. ;-) Joey -- Blog: http://joeygibson.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/joeygibson FriendFeed: http://friendfeed.com/joeygibson Facebook: http://facebook.com/joeygibson --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
