Re:Ian Lance Taylor's Response to “Go Is Google's Language”
by mattnewton on Monday May 27, 2019 @02:28PM
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I don’t understand the comparison to Haskell or Ocaml; those languages are not C like and have a much different philosophy on the responsibilities of the language and type system.
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Re:Ian Lance Taylor's Response to “Go Is Google's Language”
by 0815test on Monday May 27, 2019 @02:31PM
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Haskell is not C like? You can write Haskell with curly brackets and semicolons, just like Go! I rest my case.
No, but seriously, you didn't get what I was saying there. The whole reason Go might be of interest is that it is loosely C-like in a way that Haskell and Ocaml are not.
Re:Ian Lance Taylor's Response to “Go Is Google's Language”
by mattnewton on Monday May 27, 2019 @08:25PM
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That true, and I still don’t get what you are saying here. In my mind, they are different languages which appeal to different developers and fit with different requirements. I don’t see it as an alternative to Haskell any more than any Turing-complete language is technically an alternative.