On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:20 PM, Grant Edwards <inva...@invalid.invalid> wrote: > In a recent Reg article, there's yet more yammering on about how Go is > somehow akin to Python -- referring to Go as a "Python-C++" crossbreed. > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/20/go_in_production_at_google/ > > I still don't get it. > > What about Go, exactly, do people see as Phython-like?
I guess the type system without a strict hierarchy, as well as very fast compilation enabling fast iteration. Granted, a lot of languages have those features nowadays, and I doubt anyone would speaks about it if it was not where it was coming from. The fact that google feels the need to create a new system programming language is maybe the most interesting fact of it ? cheers, David -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
