On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Mensanator <mensana...@aol.com> wrote: > On Nov 11, 6:53 pm, kj <no.em...@please.post> wrote: >> I'm just learning about Google's latest: the GO (Go?) language. >> (e.g.http://golang.orgorhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKnDgT73v8s). >> There are some distinctly Pythonoid features to the syntax, such >> as "import this_or_that", > > There's more to Python than import statements. > In fact, this Go language is nothing like Python.
Actually, numerous analogies have been drawn between the two both by whoever wrote the docs and the tech media, including slashdot and techcrunch. >> the absence of parentheses at the top of >> flow control constructs, > > Huh? The OP is referring to the fact that for and if do not have mandatory parenthesis. >> and quite a few statements without a >> trailing semicolon. > > Those are exceptions, the rule appears to be "ends with semicolon". > In this example, I see semicolons all over the place. The rule is that if its between parens, it needs semicolons. <snip> >> Then again, there's a lot that looks distinctly >> un-Pythonlike, such as the curly brackets all over the place. > > Duh. > >> And >> among the un-Pythonlike stuff there's a lot that looks like nothing >> else that I've ever seen... > > Go look at a C++ program sometime. Go doesn't support inheritance, so C++ is pretty much out. C is a lot closer, but still not all that close. Geremy Condra -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
