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> It wasn't obvious in the beginning, but now... Was it not obvious at the beginning that this was a bad idea? What was the state of programming languages wher

• knorker 4y ago
  Depends where you were going. What I mean is that you can start a small language with shaky fundamentals, but when you try to grow it to take over it becomes a problem. But yes, if the goal was to grow then it's a bad place to start from.
• pjmlp 4y ago
  In a sense this is a tradition that the Go authors already followed once when designing C. "Although we entertained occasional thoughts about implementing one of the major languages of the time like Fortran, PL/I, or Algol 68, such a project seemed hopelessly large for our resources: much simpler and smaller tools were called for. All these languages influenced our work, but it was more fun to do things on our own. " -- https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html