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Re:Go at Google: Language Design in the Service of Software ... by enneff on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @08:08PM (#4874322)
Yes, there are ways around it, and the paper discusses one way Google addressed it. But that's not the point. It's used as just one example to illustrate why C/C++ is not ideal for working at Google's scale.
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Re:Go at Google: Language Design in the Service of Software ... by cjensen on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @08:13PM (#4874339)
I agree there's much more to the paper, and it's well worth the read. Bounds checking, avoiding pointer arithmetic, garbage collection, and concurrency all make sense at Google's scale.

I just think the bashing was misguided in an attempt to better justify adding a subset of Ada to C

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Re:Go at Google: Language Design in the Service of Software ... by enneff on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @10:06PM (#4874652)
I think it's misguided to try and characterize Go as the addition of a subset of Ada to C. ;-)
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