Well, the slashdot readership was somewhat underwhelmed by GO: http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/11/11/0210212/Go-Googles-New-Open-Source-Programming-Language
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, I didn't mean to pan it by the YAPL tag. But we are getting a lot of > them. D was supposed to be the savior for a while, and probably will > eventually displace C++. D can call C/C++ now, I believe. > > I'm surprised you like GO, isn't garbage collection a bad idea? I seem to > remember long conversations about how the last cpu cycle had to be wrung out > of any large system, and GC foils that. > > I'm really impressed Rob Pike is on the design team. ATT really owned the > computing world for quite a while. Hopefully Rob will integrate the best > ideas into GO. > > But YA does apply. I'm getting language fatigue. I was hoping there'd be > a rational core set of languages: > - Systems language: C/C++ level. Used for kernel/OS/drivers. > - Shell languages: Basically an easy way to pipe code written in System > Language > - Scripting: Python, Ruby, JavaScript level. Rapid prototyping where > performance > less important. > - Domain Specific: modeling (NetLogo etc), web (PHP, Javascript) .. etc > > So where does GO fit in? Probably at the systems level. The shells and > scripting languages may be able to use GO commands, that would be sweet. So > if we're just jacking up the programming platforms, inserting GO as a C/C++ > replacement, and dropping it back down, that could work. > > And yes, I miss the idea of a VM underneath it all. But if they come up > with a MS Common Language Runtime, that would be just as good. > > Hey, maybe a wedtech on GO? > > -- Owen > > > > On Nov 10, 2009, at 9:52 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote: > > What are you talking about, Owen? That's one good looking language. I >> think I'm in love. >> >> Seriously. >> >> I'm not too wild about it's mascot Gordon the Gopher, however. >> >> -- >> Doug Roberts >> > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > -- Doug Roberts [email protected] [email protected] 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell
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