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Why wasn't Go written as a functional language?

• coldtea 13y ago
  >Google engineers are brilliant programmers, so I don't think it's about being used to a certain paradigm either. Well, it could very well be a major factor in this. Google engineers in general and Go engineers in particular might be brilliant programmers, but the team behind Go is quite old school (you don't get much older school than Thompson and Pike, unless you go to, dunno, Chuck Moore?), and mostly devoted to procedural code.