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... Python was led by a Google employee for seven years.

by zemo 7y ago

rzzzt 7y ago
One of the first languages supported on App Engine was Python, IIRC.
objektif 7y ago
Does it matter where the person worked? Python definitely was not Google’s or any other corp’s.
- zemo 7y ago
  Google employed the primary maintainer of Python and paid him to work on it. You asked "did they have a giant corp behind them", the subtext there being that you could complete the sentence "as Go does". I'm merely pointing out that your example of Python is strikingly similar to Guido Van Rossum working at Google while he was BDFL of Python
- joemi 7y ago
  Of course it matters. That's the whole reason the Go Is Google's Language post exists. And the whole reason the response exists, and this very comment thread, too.
  - objektif 7y ago
    Absolutely not. It is one thing to create a language and maontain it and another to hire someone who created a language some years ago.
    - joemi 7y ago
      from the post: > There was no mandate or suggestion from Google management or executives that Google should develop a programming language. For many years, including well after the open source release, I doubt any Google executives had more than a vague awareness of the existence of Go
      - objektif 7y ago
        That is a ver very strong assumption. Just because Google did not explicitly have a ‘GO’ team does not mean they did not support it. I assume Google became aware of it the moment their employees started using it for something useful. People have bosses who have bosses. At whoch point they decided to let their employees continue working on it.
        emmelaich 7y ago
        Go exists because Rob Pike, Ken Thompson and others are allowed the latitude to make it. You can be sure that whatever they do gets a high profile without it in any way being "supported" or "official"
dudus 7y ago
It would be more correct to say Google hired the leader of Python and he worked there for 7 years
- joemi 7y ago
  Is there really much practical difference between that and Go? From the Ian Lance Taylor response: > There was no mandate or suggestion from Google management or executives that Google should develop a programming language. For many years, including well after the open source release, I doubt any Google executives had more than a vague awareness of the existence of Go

... Python was led by a Google employee for seven years.

by zemo 7y ago

... Python was led by a Google employee for seven years.

rzzzt 7y ago

One of the first languages supported on App Engine was Python, IIRC.

objektif 7y ago

Does it matter where the person worked? Python definitely was not Google’s or any other corp’s.

zemo 7y ago
Google employed the primary maintainer of Python and paid him to work on it. You asked "did they have a giant corp behind them", the subtext there being that you could complete the sentence "as Go does". I'm merely pointing out that your example of Python is strikingly similar to Guido Van Rossum working at Google while he was BDFL of Python
joemi 7y ago
Of course it matters. That's the whole reason the Go Is Google's Language post exists. And the whole reason the response exists, and this very comment thread, too.
- objektif 7y ago
  Absolutely not. It is one thing to create a language and maontain it and another to hire someone who created a language some years ago.
  - joemi 7y ago
    from the post: > There was no mandate or suggestion from Google management or executives that Google should develop a programming language. For many years, including well after the open source release, I doubt any Google executives had more than a vague awareness of the existence of Go
    - objektif 7y ago
      That is a ver very strong assumption. Just because Google did not explicitly have a ‘GO’ team does not mean they did not support it. I assume Google became aware of it the moment their employees started using it for something useful. People have bosses who have bosses. At whoch point they decided to let their employees continue working on it.
      - emmelaich 7y ago
        Go exists because Rob Pike, Ken Thompson and others are allowed the latitude to make it. You can be sure that whatever they do gets a high profile without it in any way being "supported" or "official"

dudus 7y ago

It would be more correct to say Google hired the leader of Python and he worked there for 7 years

joemi 7y ago
Is there really much practical difference between that and Go? From the Ian Lance Taylor response: > There was no mandate or suggestion from Google management or executives that Google should develop a programming language. For many years, including well after the open source release, I doubt any Google executives had more than a vague awareness of the existence of Go