Re: [dev] what's your opinion on Go

2011-12-16 Thread hiro
The future is blablabla This doesn't really matter for us individuals, generally. My programming language is SMTP

Re: [dev] what's your opinion on Go

2011-12-16 Thread pmarin
I have to confess that lately I am enjoying reading the Bratko's Prolog book. On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 8:00 PM, hiro 23h...@googlemail.com wrote: The future is blablabla This doesn't really matter for us individuals, generally. My programming language is SMTP

Re: [dev] what's your opinion on Go

2011-12-13 Thread Anselm R Garbe
On 13 December 2011 02:58, Arian Kuschki arian.kusc...@googlemail.com wrote: I would like to learn a new programming language. I do not know C. As I remember positive reactions on this list when Go came out, I would like to know if people still think it might be a 'better C'. One thing I like

Re: [dev] what's your opinion on Go

2011-12-13 Thread Hadrian Węgrzynowski
On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 02:58:31 +0100 Arian Kuschki arian.kusc...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi all, I would like to learn a new programming language. I do not know C. As I remember positive reactions on this list when Go came out, I would like to know if people still think it might be a 'better C'. One

Re: [dev] what's your opinion on Go

2011-12-13 Thread Connor Lane Smith
Hey, 2011/12/13 Hadrian Węgrzynowski hadr...@hawski.com: C is the king and Go is the prince. Go needs to be more stable/mature, then it will be the king. Maybe I'm biased, but I think the future is all about functional programming. C has its benefits by being very very low-level, but if you're

Re: [dev] what's your opinion on Go

2011-12-13 Thread Anselm R Garbe
On 13 December 2011 12:27, Connor Lane Smith c...@lubutu.com wrote: 2011/12/13 Hadrian Węgrzynowski hadr...@hawski.com: C is the king and Go is the prince. Go needs to be more stable/mature, then it will be the king. Maybe I'm biased, but I think the future is all about functional

Re: [dev] what's your opinion on Go

2011-12-13 Thread David Tweed
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Connor Lane Smith c...@lubutu.com wrote: Hey, 2011/12/13 Hadrian Węgrzynowski hadr...@hawski.com: C is the king and Go is the prince. Go needs to be more stable/mature, then it will be the king. Maybe I'm biased, but I think the future is all about

Re: [dev] what's your opinion on Go

2011-12-13 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:34:50 -, Hadrian Węgrzynowski hadr...@hawski.com wrote: C is the king and Go is the prince. Go needs to be more stable/mature, then it will be the king. Then what is D? I guess the answer will be the same as for Haskell. + D is the best of C and Python modulo

Re: [dev] what's your opinion on Go

2011-12-13 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 13/12/11 Bjartur Thorlacius said: Then what is D? I guess the answer will be the same as for Haskell. + D is the best of C and Python modulo compatibility and popularity. Unlike lisp, most any programmer can read it. Python is my go-to language right now, but if I had to pick one

Re: [dev] what's your opinion on Go

2011-12-13 Thread Corey Thomasson
On 13 December 2011 08:03, Bjartur Thorlacius svartma...@gmail.com wrote: + D is the best of C and Python modulo compatibility and popularity. Unlike lisp, most any programmer can read it. Last time I looked at D it was more like C++ plus even more crap^H^H^H^Hfeatures.

Re: [dev] what's your opinion on Go

2011-12-13 Thread David
Am 13.12.2011 14:28, schrieb Corey Thomasson: On 13 December 2011 08:03, Bjartur Thorlacius svartma...@gmail.com mailto:svartma...@gmail.com wrote: + D is the best of C and Python modulo compatibility and popularity. Unlike lisp, most any programmer can read it. Last time I looked

Re: [dev] what's your opinion on Go

2011-12-13 Thread pancake
On 12/13/11 14:54, David wrote: Am 13.12.2011 14:28, schrieb Corey Thomasson: On 13 December 2011 08:03, Bjartur Thorlacius svartma...@gmail.com mailto:svartma...@gmail.com wrote: + D is the best of C and Python modulo compatibility and popularity. Unlike lisp, most any programmer

Re: [dev] what's your opinion on Go

2011-12-13 Thread Andrew Hills
I've heared that functional programming will take over the world for the last decade. When talking to some older geeks they've heared this since the 70s. Now we are in the year 2012 nearly, and functional programming is still niche. The problem, as I see it, is that you can't teach functional

Re: [dev] what's your opinion on Go

2011-12-13 Thread markus schnalke
[2011-12-13 08:12] Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca [...] but if I had to pick one language to use for everything, it would be C. You better not pick any single language to use for everything. meillo

[dev] what's your opinion on Go

2011-12-12 Thread Arian Kuschki
Hi all, I would like to learn a new programming language. I do not know C. As I remember positive reactions on this list when Go came out, I would like to know if people still think it might be a 'better C'. One thing I like about Go is that is seems more suitable for server/web stuff, which is