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Adrian Cochrane

@mawhrin @davidgerard Personally Go was never my taste in language...

They advertised themselves on their elegant design, but they don't strike me as anything special there. And they have some of the same footguns as C.

12 Feb 2023 at 17:24 | Wall-to-wall | Open on floss.social
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RAK

@alcinnz: I recall seeing jokes that Go was ALGOL 68+41.

12 Feb 2023 at 21:24 | Open on fosstodon.org
mathew

@raktheundead @alcinnz Go really is a descendant of Modula and Oberon, which are descended from Algol; and it has CSP-like features taken from SuperPascal and Joyce. Robert Griesemer, who now works on Go, worked on Oberon. The rest of the syntax is from the Unix and Plan-9 people.

youtube.com/watch?t=17m50s&v=0

12 Feb 2023 at 23:58 | Open on universeodon.com
The Doctor

@alcinnz @mawhrin @davidgerard It was kind of nice right before they decided to make it look more like C++17.

12 Feb 2023 at 21:43 | Open on hackers.town
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jollyrogue

@drwho The clean, simplicity is what I like(d?) about Go. It got many things correct. Then Ken Thompson retired, and the team decided Go needed to be web scale.

“Googled” should replace“ Rube Goldberg Machine” in the lexicon.

@alcinnz @mawhrin @davidgerard

13 Feb 2023 at 7:19 | Open on bsd.network
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