To go back to the original subject, since gcc(1) has taken the C++ path,
I will be more than happy of an increase of Go programs since, thanks to
the work of some people, Go for Plan9 is possible.
As for the Go language, it is sufficiently near C, with extensions that
feel natural, to be interesting and easy to grasp for a C programmer
(and the gotour allows to start easily).
But it is the same as some parts of mathematics: I was not really
interested in them because they were not in the neighborhood of
what I was interested in at the moment. I finally got interested
in these parts later, when my wandering suddenly arrived in these
neglected parts, reminding me "something" (and then I saw why it
was interesting). So Go is stocked in a part of my mind, perhaps
simply waiting for a problem it will be the tool to solve.
But since I'm one of the few who use litterate programming (cweb), I
would probably start by wrinting a goweb instead of using the dedicated
tools...
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