kj wrote:
I'm just learning about Google's latest: the GO (Go?) language.
(e.g. http://golang.org or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKnDgT73v8s).
There are some distinctly Pythonoid features to the syntax, such
as "import this_or_that", the absence of parentheses at the top of
flow control constructs, and quite a few statements without a
trailing semicolon. Then again, there's a lot that looks distinctly
un-Pythonlike, such as the curly brackets all over the place. And
among the un-Pythonlike stuff there's a lot that looks like nothing
else that I've ever seen...
I don't see many similarities with python, especially it's syntax looks
completely different to me. Google Go introduces many new concepts.
Interfaces work a little bit like duck typing. You may call that
python-style. And it has go-routines, which are a bit similar to
generators (although I haven't look at them in detail). There is no
exception handling, but channels should be able to substitute them,
although I haven't checked that.
At a first look it seems, that using Google Go effectively, someone has
to relinquish many programming habits and adapt lots of new ones.
- Patrick
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