Re: [dev] [OT] [OT]: Go programming language

2009-11-15 Thread Anonymous
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 06:32:15AM +0100, Uriel wrote: > The C preprocessor has been pretty much ignored by any decent C > programmer for decades now, getting rid of it in Go is a non-issue. It was not ignored. sys/queue.h is very useful

Re: [dev] [OT] [OT]: Go programming language

2009-11-15 Thread pmarin
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 6:32 AM, Uriel wrote: > On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Dmitry Maluka > wrote: > You don't need to replace something that is useless and evil, as Go > shows. Just like Plan 9 didn't "replace" root and suid (or at least > not directly). > > The C preprocessor has been p

Re: [dev] [OT] [OT]: Go programming language

2009-11-14 Thread Uriel
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Dmitry Maluka wrote: > On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 03:47:46AM +, Aled Gest wrote: >> I totally agree that the C pre-processor sucks. It's ill thought out >> and needs replacing. > > Any proposals? You don't need to replace something that is useless and evil, as G

Re: [dev] [OT] [OT]: Go programming language

2009-11-13 Thread Dmitry Maluka
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 03:47:46AM +, Aled Gest wrote: > I totally agree that the C pre-processor sucks. It's ill thought out > and needs replacing. Any proposals? > However, going back to what you were saying about > you being able to subdue Lisp's syntax with macros, any language that > req