Didn’t mean to imply anything negative - you accomplished what you set out to do. I “think in Java” and a lot of my initial problems with Go revolved around that, but even after doing some serious Go development - in the Go style - I can agree with many of your points.
I will admit my bias against anything written in Python… :) > On Jan 26, 2020, at 10:09 PM, Eric Raymond <e...@thyrsus.com> wrote: > > > > On Sunday, January 26, 2020 at 9:06:47 PM UTC-5, Robert Engels wrote: > I think trying to write Python in Go is problematic. > > Of course it is. If I were starting a Go program from scratch I certainly > wouldn't try to code as though the language were Python. > > The real burden of my experience report is that *after I got past* the > initial and somewhat herky-jerky translation, some of the expressiveness > problems I tripped over *continued* to be expressiveness problems in > idiomatic Go. > > Perhaps this would be more obvious if you had seen some of the gripes I had > in early drafts that I removed because I realized they were artifacts of > Pythonic thinking. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/d810807f-a1ab-4fb6-a303-439ec456c7b5%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/d810807f-a1ab-4fb6-a303-439ec456c7b5%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/50D0DDD4-590E-4262-9DD2-8FEF8B3D7E43%40ix.netcom.com.
