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Re:A Year’s Worth of Opinions about Objective-C by frou_dh on Saturday December 14, 2013 @12:34PM (#6906305)
You're incorrect about Go. It's in the spec that derefing a nil pointer will cause a runtime panic (~ an exception).

http://golang.org/ref/spec#Address_operators

Re:A Year’s Worth of Opinions about Objective-C by drewcrawford on Saturday December 14, 2013 @12:46PM (#6906344)
I stand corrected.