Go is reminiscent of a combination of C and Python as well, but you're probably correct that it doesn't explicitly borrow anything from Python. It also reminds of a Lisp with C syntax.
# Steve 2009/11/11 Richard Tew <richard.m....@gmail.com> > 2009/11/12 Kristján Valur Jónsson <krist...@ccpgames.com>: > > Interesting stuff indeed. > > I's just a pity they didn't adopt more features from python, instead > sticking with a C-like syntax and somewhat strong typing :) > > I don't think they adopted any features from Python. Several of the > people involved in this language worked on Limbo I believe. And > rather than being a scripting language, it is a compiled language > which strong typing probably makes easier. > > While one of my first thoughts was that any new language should > consider an indentation-based syntax, one of the things I miss in > Python is the ability to define functions as argument expressions. In > Python, you can only do this using lambda, and it is hardly a > consistently readable tool let alone very flexible. Seeing this in > Go, the C-like syntax has become appealing. > > They have an nice example where they chain 100000 microthreads each > wrapping the same function that increases the value of a passed > argument by one, with channels inbetween. Pumping a value through the > chain takes 1.5 seconds. I can't imagine that Stackless will be > anything close to that, given the difference between scripting and > compiled code. > > However, trying to read the compiler source code is a challenge. > Where Stackless' source code is relatively straightforward, Go's is > arcane and hard to decipher. With globals having one letter names (g, > m) and function names being short and ambiguous. > > Cheers, > Richard. > > _______________________________________________ > Stackless mailing list > Stackless@stackless.com > http://www.stackless.com/mailman/listinfo/stackless > -- Steve Rogers http://www.linkedin.com/in/shrogers “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” -- Theodore Roosevelt
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