On Nov 21, 11:20 am, John Roth <johnro...@gmail.com> wrote:
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Go is simply C with most (but not all) of the warts removed and some more modern features added.
Syntax-wise, I find myself disappointed that they didn't do as good a job of removing the warts as they could have. For example, there are good reasons for putting types after variable names, but just swapping them around doesn't quite work. C's "int x" reads well because it mimics similar constructs in English which qualify a noun with another noun, e.g. "President Obama". If you say "Obama President", it doesn't sound right. You need some extra punctuation to make it meaningful: "Obama, President". Similarly, I think just a little bit more punctuation is needed to make name-first declarations readable. For my money, it's hard to beat the Wirth style: func foo(x: int; y: char): float However, Go's designers seem to favour using the absolute minimum number of characters they can get away with. Although if they *really* wanted that, they would have dropped most of the semicolons and used indentation-based block structure instead of curly braces. I would have forgiven them several other sins if they'd done that. :-) -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
