[FRIAM] The Go Programming Language

[Owen Densmore]

Well, I didn't mean to pan it by the YAPL tag.  But we are getting a  
lot of them.  D was supposed to be the savior for a while, and  
probably will eventually displace C++.  D can call C/C++ now, I believe.

I'm surprised you like GO, isn't garbage collection a bad idea?  I  
seem to remember long conversations about how the last cpu cycle had  
to be wrung out of any large system, and GC foils that.

I'm really impressed Rob Pike is on the design team.  ATT really owned  
the computing world for quite a while.  Hopefully Rob will integrate  
the best ideas into GO.

But YA does apply.  I'm getting language fatigue.  I was hoping  
there'd be a rational core set of languages:
   - Systems language: C/C++ level.  Used for kernel/OS/drivers.
   - Shell languages: Basically an easy way to pipe code written in  
System Language
   - Scripting: Python, Ruby, JavaScript level.  Rapid prototyping  
where performance
     less important.
   - Domain Specific: modeling (NetLogo etc), web (PHP, Javascript) ..  
etc

So where does GO fit in?  Probably at the systems level.  The shells  
and scripting languages may be able to use GO commands, that would be  
sweet.  So if we're just jacking up the programming platforms,  
inserting GO as a C/C++ replacement, and dropping it back down, that  
could work.

And yes, I miss the idea of a VM underneath it all.  But if they come  
up with a MS Common Language Runtime, that would be just as good.

Hey, maybe a wedtech on GO?

     -- Owen


On Nov 10, 2009, at 9:52 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote:

> What are you talking about, Owen?  That's one good looking  
> language.  I think I'm in love.
>
> Seriously.
>
> I'm not too wild about it's mascot Gordon the Gopher, however.
>
> -- 
> Doug Roberts