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Re:Swift and Go: Building a Fast Future by pjmlp on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @05:33PM (#8626829)
> However, I do think you really underestimate the compile speed of Go.

You mean like Turbo Pascal 4.0 back in MS-DOS?

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Re:Swift and Go: Building a Fast Future by Roboprog on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @08:03PM (#8627543)
or TP-Win vs Turbo-C-Win. Pascal compilation was "don't blink, or you'll miss it" vs "go get coffee...".

Go reminds me a lot of TP with garbage collection, dressed up to look like C to avoid bruising Bell Labs egos. (OK, closures and multiple return values are pretty cool, too, as are associative arrays and array slices)

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