[go-nuts] Where to find documentation for old Golang releases

2019-09-18 Thread Leo R
Hi ALL, For several reasons I have to stay with Go-1.12.x. But after Go-1.13 has been released I cannot find 1.12 documentation online any longer. Official Golang portal https://golang.org only provides documentation for the latest release. Are there any online resources that have older

Re: [go-nuts] time.Format vs. fmt.Sprintf

2019-07-23 Thread Leo R
Dan is the only one in this thread who pays attention to the actual value of the timestamp not just to its format :-) --Leo On Tuesday, July 23, 2019 at 7:45:37 PM UTC-4, Robert Engels wrote: > > Funny. Did you remember it or just pay close attention to these things? > > > On Jul 23, 2019, at

[go-nuts] Re: Need help to learn go lang

2019-07-20 Thread Leo R
Two books immediately come to mind (1) Donovan & Kernighan "The Go Programming Language", 2016 (2) Tapir Liu "Go 101", 2019 [https://go101.org/] Book (1) is to Go what K is to C. The book (2) is a useful complementary exposition. Both books assume some familiarity with programming in

Re: [go-nuts] Re: Go for Data Science

2019-07-16 Thread Leo R
Regarding REPL in Go, it is complicated. Currently, lgo seems to be broken as of go-1.12 (and go-1.13), see README.md in their repo https://github.com/yunabe/lgo. Until there is an official REPL blessed by the Go core team and included as part of tools, a random unexpected breakage of REPL is

Re: [go-nuts] Go for Data Science

2019-07-16 Thread Leo R
My point is that contemporary Data Science stack is using too many different languages all way from scripting (R, Python) to statically compiled C/C++ and sometimes Fortran (R, some scipy algos are in Fortran) and even JVM based Scala. This creates artificial barriers -- data scientists play

Re: [go-nuts] Go for Data Science

2019-07-16 Thread Leo R
n the ring or will leave the field to other players. --Leo On Tuesday, July 16, 2019 at 3:31:12 PM UTC-4, Michael Jones wrote: > > Leo, > > R is implemented in C and FORTRAN plus R on top of that. SAS is in C (and > some Go here and there) plus the SAS language in top of that. Mathematica