Yeah, that point doesn't seem to make a lot of sense. When people talk about Python and Go being similar, or filling a similar niche, I gather that this refers

Yeah, that point doesn't seem to make a lot of sense. When people talk about Python and Go being similar, or filling a similar niche, I gather that this refers mostly to the short compilation time, rich standard library and easy of use. They are quite different in other ways. Go might also be more similar in syntax than to Python than Lisp is, but the article talks about the "semantic gap" (not syntactic gap) which seems much narrower in Lisp vs. Python than in Go vs. Python. > I did examine two automated tools for Python to Go translation, but rejected them because I judged the generated Go code would have been a maintainability disaster. Perhaps indicating that the languages are not all that similar semantically.