2009/11/12 Roman Shaposhnik <ro...@shaposhnik.org>: > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Nick LaForge <nicklafo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 7:20 AM, Roman V Shaposhnik <r...@sun.com> wrote: >> >>> Personally I think you'd be better off exploring a connection that a >>> language called Lua has to C. In the immortal words of Casablanca it >>> just could be "the begging of a beautiful friendship". >> >> Well, it was nice while it lasted. > > Huh? I'll agree with you when Go grows a VM. And even then things like > ... and multi-values (which, of course, are only possible in a dynamically > typed language) will keep me interested. > > Speaking of VMs (and Limbo) -- I'm wondering if Go is eventually going > to have it anyway. Any reason not to?
It can be perceived as a competitor to C if it has a runtime, but not if it has a VM. So I don't think it would grow one. --dho > Thanks, > Roman. > >
