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I know. Perl was all that at the time. daunting! modern! no compiler OMG! text transformation on the code itself! it was the bee knees. All that Go delivers to
by gcbw2 8y ago
I know. Perl was all that at the time. daunting! modern! no compiler OMG! text transformation on the code itself! it was the bee knees.
All that Go delivers today, over the medium, is very similar to what perl also delivered yesteryear, on top of yesteryear medium. But also like perl, it is being born from a bunch of old unix system engineers :)
- ptx 8y agoAre you sure you're not confusing Go with some other language? > daunting! Go is often praised for being simple. > modern! ...and criticized for being too simple, ignoring modern advances in programming language research. > no compiler OMG! The compiler and its careful tradeoff between fast compilation and fast programs is a key characteristic of Go. > text transformation on the code itself! Go doesn't have macros. Instead people fall back on code generation, just like Java.