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Re:Go 1.18 by quaunaut on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @02:23PM (#30688959)
I'm not sure it's elitism to be looking for type-system features that are well-over a decade old and generally non-controversial and considered vast positives.

I don't think they necessarily need to go crazy in this regard(as simplicity is one of Go's best strengths), but I don't think it's elitism.

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Re:Go 1.18 by scns on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @07:08PM (#30693145)
> Algebraic data types were introduced in Hope, a small functional programming language developed in the 1970s at the University of Edinburgh. [0]

It predates Miranda and Haskell and is contemporaneous with ML, also developed at the University. [1]

ML had them too [2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_data_type#Programmin...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_(programming_language)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ML_(programming_language)

edit: add ML

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