thankfully I chose to learn go as my first language...so all good then :-) On Monday, October 5, 2020 at 10:23:32 AM UTC+1 era...@gmail.com wrote:
> I believe all these are statements of facts based on practical > observations that one finds out that to learn GO one needs to unlearn and > then learn again. For GO, that is indeed the way to GO. > > On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 12:21 AM Tyler Compton <xav...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I wonder if mailing lists for all languages get posts like this :) >> Working in Go is great, but every language has sharp corners. Language >> design is a tricky balancing act of trade-offs, and I don't think Go or any >> other language is above that. >> >> On Sun, Oct 4, 2020 at 1:25 PM Amnon <amn...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Go is a beautifully simple language. It is easy to learn. >>> Most programmers can learn to write working production code within a day. >>> >>> But learning Go is the easy thing. It is much much harder to liberate >>> yourself >>> from the conceptual baggage that you have inherited from languages in >>> your past. >>> Every programmer carries scars from the sharp corners of previous >>> languages, >>> and these scars continue to infect the code they write today. >>> It takes many months of immersion in idiomatic Go for these scars to >>> have >>> a chance to heal. Sometimes years. And some programmers never manage >>> to escape the traumas and convoluted rituals of the past. And they are >>> doomed to continue >>> writing their former language in Go syntax, for the rest of their >>> careers. >>> >>> So learning Go is easy. But exorcising the ghosts of former languages >>> can be very very hard. >>> >>> -- >>> 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...@googlegroups.com. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/efbfba1d-5d1e-47ed-8a16-c73c98ba1575n%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/efbfba1d-5d1e-47ed-8a16-c73c98ba1575n%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...@googlegroups.com. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CAA%3DXfu3_FqC-dts%3Dq7RYFhxo7vMnfMoCvNJmhA968%3DWWA0oeew%40mail.gmail.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CAA%3DXfu3_FqC-dts%3Dq7RYFhxo7vMnfMoCvNJmhA968%3DWWA0oeew%40mail.gmail.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/4d69b281-e229-4281-8a1b-c8b0384e6b44n%40googlegroups.com.
