Re: [dev] what's your opinion on Go

2011-12-16 Thread pmarin
I have to confess that lately I am enjoying reading the Bratko's Prolog book. On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 8:00 PM, hiro <23h...@googlemail.com> wrote: > "The future is blablabla" > > This doesn't really matter for us individuals, generally. > My programming language is SMTP >

Re: [dev] what's your opinion on Go

2011-12-16 Thread hiro
"The future is blablabla" This doesn't really matter for us individuals, generally. My programming language is SMTP

Re: [dev] what's your opinion on Go

2011-12-13 Thread markus schnalke
[2011-12-13 08:12] "Michael P. Soulier" > > [...] but if I had to pick one language to > use for everything, it would be C. You better not pick any single language to use for everything. meillo

Re: [dev] what's your opinion on Go

2011-12-13 Thread Andrew Hills
> I've heared that functional programming will take over the world for > the last decade. When talking to some older geeks they've heared this > since the 70s. Now we are in the year 2012 nearly, and functional > programming is still niche. The problem, as I see it, is that you can't teach functio

Re: [dev] what's your opinion on Go

2011-12-13 Thread pancake
On 12/13/11 14:54, David wrote: Am 13.12.2011 14:28, schrieb Corey Thomasson: On 13 December 2011 08:03, Bjartur Thorlacius > wrote: + D is the best of C and Python modulo compatibility and popularity. Unlike lisp, most any programmer can read it. Last ti

Re: [dev] what's your opinion on Go

2011-12-13 Thread David
Am 13.12.2011 14:28, schrieb Corey Thomasson: On 13 December 2011 08:03, Bjartur Thorlacius > wrote: + D is the best of C and Python modulo compatibility and popularity. Unlike lisp, most any programmer can read it. Last time I looked at D it was more like

Re: [dev] what's your opinion on Go

2011-12-13 Thread Corey Thomasson
On 13 December 2011 08:03, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: > > + D is the best of C and Python modulo compatibility and popularity. > Unlike lisp, most any programmer can read it. > > Last time I looked at D it was more like C++ plus even more crap^H^H^H^Hfeatures.

Re: [dev] what's your opinion on Go

2011-12-13 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 13/12/11 Bjartur Thorlacius said: > Then what is D? I guess the answer will be the same as for Haskell. > > + D is the best of C and Python modulo compatibility and popularity. > Unlike lisp, most any programmer can read it. Python is my go-to language right now, but if I had to pick one lang

Re: [dev] what's your opinion on Go

2011-12-13 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:34:50 -, Hadrian Węgrzynowski wrote: C is the king and Go is the prince. Go needs to be more stable/mature, then it will be the king. Then what is D? I guess the answer will be the same as for Haskell. + D is the best of C and Python modulo compatibility and popula

Re: [dev] what's your opinion on Go

2011-12-13 Thread David Tweed
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Connor Lane Smith wrote: > Hey, > > 2011/12/13 Hadrian Węgrzynowski : >> C is the king and Go is the prince. Go needs to be more stable/mature, >> then it will be the king. > > Maybe I'm biased, but I think the future is all about functional > programming. C has i

Re: [dev] what's your opinion on Go

2011-12-13 Thread Anselm R Garbe
On 13 December 2011 12:27, Connor Lane Smith wrote: > 2011/12/13 Hadrian Węgrzynowski : >> C is the king and Go is the prince. Go needs to be more stable/mature, >> then it will be the king. > > Maybe I'm biased, but I think the future is all about functional > programming. C has its benefits by b

Re: [dev] what's your opinion on Go

2011-12-13 Thread Connor Lane Smith
Hey, 2011/12/13 Hadrian Węgrzynowski : > C is the king and Go is the prince. Go needs to be more stable/mature, > then it will be the king. Maybe I'm biased, but I think the future is all about functional programming. C has its benefits by being very very low-level, but if you're going to include

Re: [dev] what's your opinion on Go

2011-12-13 Thread Hadrian Węgrzynowski
On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 02:58:31 +0100 Arian Kuschki wrote: >Hi all, > >I would like to learn a new programming language. I do not know C. As >I remember positive reactions on this list when Go came out, I would >like to know if people still think it might be a 'better C'. One thing >I like about Go

Re: [dev] what's your opinion on Go

2011-12-13 Thread Anselm R Garbe
On 13 December 2011 02:58, Arian Kuschki wrote: > I would like to learn a new programming language. I do not know C. As > I remember positive reactions on this list when Go came out, I would > like to know if people still think it might be a 'better C'. One thing > I like about Go is that is seems