> Go is the only recent language that takes the aforementioned 40 years of programming language research and tosses it out the window. > The mere existence of

> Go is the only recent language that takes the aforementioned 40 years of programming language research and tosses it out the window. > The mere existence of Go says “your views on what makes a good programming language are wrong”. As someone that dislikes Go, that's not it. It's because Go doesn't "own" the fact that it thrown language research out the window. If Go advocates waved their imperative programming flag proudly I would just ignore the language completely.