Re:First chapter of Kernighan and Donovan's new Go book [pdf]
by rudolf0 on Monday October 19, 2015 @03:15PM
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I think it's fair to call Go an anti-Perl.
Perl is very liberal. There's always more than one way to do things.
Go is very conservative, in comparison.
I'd agree that both are contrarian, but for very different reasons.
Wouldn't be out of place at a marketing agency, with about the same level of truth too.
> Sort of the anti-Perl?
In what sense? The one thing you can say about Perl is that it's a huge language, so the anti-perl would be a very small language. Go isn't a very small language (like Forth), it isn't even a small one (like Smalltalk or Self) it's about the same size/complexity as an early Java. Somewhat bigger in some ways (more magical builtins and constructs) somewhat smaller in others (simpler visibility rules, no synchronised methods/blocks), but in the best case it's a wash.
> Go is very contrarian, and I applaud this.
Perl is also very contrarian.