In a recent Reg article, there's yet more yammering on about how Go is somehow akin to Python -- referring to Go as a "Python-C++" crossbreed.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/20/go_in_production_at_google/ I still don't get it. What about Go, exactly, do people see as Phython-like? Go doesn't seem to have any of the salient features (either syntactic or semantic) of Python other than garbage collection. How is Go not just warmed-over Java? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! RELATIVES!! at gmail.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list