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[Rick Welykochy]

stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:

> The Go Programming Language
>
>   http://golang.org
>
> "Go is an open source programming environment that makes it easy to build
> simple, reliable, and efficient software."

I had a quick look at the Go language, wondering if we really need YACL
(yet another computer lanugage).

The syntax is a Java/python blend, and same old same old for those born
and bred in the world of C.

The most interesting feature: the language supports concurrency, which may
be its greatest strength. Think of the multi-core CPUs sitting out there
unloved and under-used. Most computer languages and computer programmers
cannot, will not and do not support concurrent programming to any reasonable
level.

As to claims of ease of building simple, reliable and efficient software,
I quietly chuckle to myself. Any fool armed with a sufficiently elegant
tool can make a wonderfully elegant mess. The solution to the extensive
problem of software reliability and the many attendant related security issues
is not a new computer language.

cheers
rickw


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