Swift and Go: Building a Fast Future

Re:Swift and Go: Building a Fast Future by masklinn on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @05:11PM (#8626709)

That it might have deserved the moniker if it had been released around the same time as java.

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Re:Swift and Go: Building a Fast Future by coldtea on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @05:50PM (#8626916)

Make that a few decades before actually:

http://cowlark.com/2009-11-15-go/

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Re:Swift and Go: Building a Fast Future by masklinn on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @03:39AM (#8628895)

Well it does have a structural type system (one of the few other languages with one being OCaml, '96), a GC (popularised/made acceptable by Java '95) and provides language-level support for CSP (Occam '83)

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Re:Swift and Go: Building a Fast Future by Joky on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @02:49PM (#8632188)

Thanks for the link, that was very interesting to read! I didn't know Algol (I knew the name and how "historical" it is but not the details).

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Re:Swift and Go: Building a Fast Future by twic on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @03:05PM (#8632284)

Hadn't seen this before. This is brilliant. Thanks.

So, who's up for an Algol-15 project?

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