And since I'm a fan of lifelong learning, I have to admit to not having known
that println() was a builtin until this post. Thanks! That does un-complicate
it somewhat.
> On Mar 26, 2020, at 10:34 AM, Sebastien Binet <bi...@cern.ch> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 3:29 PM David Riley <fraveyd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
> But:
>
> - You still need to import something just to print a line, and it is
> confusingly (to the novice) named "fmt"
> - You still need to declare a function called main(), and most brand-new
> programmers don't understand functions yet, so this becomes a "wave the dead
> chicken at it just right" thing
> - Semicolons are still there under the surface, but they're inserted by the
> lexer, and when they get inserted can be really mysterious and trip a lot of
> people up
>
> In contrast, in Python (3, in this case), it is:
>
> print("Hello, world!")
>
> to be fair, in Go, "hello world" can be reduced to:
>
> package main
> func main() {
> println("hello world")
> }
>
> that's usually how I start my Go-based lecture.
> (and then, 2-3 lectures/hands-on sessions after that, I do introduce 'import
> "foo"')
>
> -s
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