Re:Checked C
by tomcam on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @03:25PM
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Elegant, but of course it would be. It’s like you’re a trained professional or something ;)
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Re:Checked C
by WalterBright on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @03:57PM
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not my first rodeo! ABEL was the first language I designed (for Data I/O) back in the 80s.
ABEL = "Advanced Boolean Expression Language", a language for programming PLDs (Programmable Logic Devices) which was a core business for Data I/O.
There's no substitute for decades of having programmers giving you (and shouting at you) blunt feedback on your programming language proposals.
Re:Checked C
by WalterBright on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @07:43PM
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People have never been shy with criticism!
I did not know who you were at first. Would you have any thoughts on why another group made Golang when D already existed that you would be willing to share?
Because Google saves us all.
Because Go designers don't like OOP and didn't want low-level system programming as core features. They also were not keen on generic programming. Basically they wanted a simpler language. (Then they realized generics are useful, ironically their constraints add complexity). Also they wanted a segmented stack and coroutines + channels as language features.