Google releases new programing language.
http://golang.org/

http://tech.yahoo.com/news/infoworld/20091110/tc_infoworld/99864

and for your viewing pleasure:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKnDgT73v8s
a one hour youtube video!


Cheers Don...



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On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:43:06 +1100, Don McKenzie <5V@2.5A> wrote:

>
>Google releases new programing language.
>http://golang.org/
>
>http://tech.yahoo.com/news/infoworld/20091110/tc_infoworld/99864
>
>and for your viewing pleasure:
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKnDgT73v8s
>a one hour youtube video!

Looks interesting, in the sed->awk->Perl tradition perhaps.

But "goroutines"? Somebody should be flogged...

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On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:43:06 +1100
Don McKenzie <5V@2.5A> wrote:

> 
> Google releases new programing language.
> http://golang.org/
> 
> http://tech.yahoo.com/news/infoworld/20091110/tc_infoworld/99864
> 
> and for your viewing pleasure:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKnDgT73v8s
> a one hour youtube video!
> 
> 
> Cheers Don...
> 

Looks a lot like Python, but with a compiler instead of an
interpreter.  *shrug*

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On 2009-11-12, Rob Gaddi <r...@technologyhighland.com> wrote:

>> Google releases new programing language.
>> http://golang.org/

> Looks a lot like Python, but with a compiler instead of an
> interpreter.  *shrug*

To me, it looks a lot more like C/Java than it looks like
Python:

 * whitespace isn't significant
 
 * curly-braces as block delimiters
 
 * semicolons to separate statements  

When it comes to semantics rather than looks, it still doesn't
seem all that similar to Python. In general, the object/type
system doesn't seem to be comparable (Go has no inheritence).

Go also has no exceptions or any practical error-handling
facilities.

All in all, I was pretty underwheled.

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Rich Webb wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:43:06 +1100, Don McKenzie <5V@2.5A> wrote:
> 
>> Google releases new programing language.
>> http://golang.org/
>>
>> http://tech.yahoo.com/news/infoworld/20091110/tc_infoworld/99864
>>
>> and for your viewing pleasure:
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKnDgT73v8s
>> a one hour youtube video!
> 
> Looks interesting, in the sed->awk->Perl tradition perhaps.
> 
> But "goroutines"? Somebody should be flogged...
> 
gotines?
gootines?
They got into trouble as soon as they named it "go"

Bob

Don McKenzie wrote:
> 
> Google releases new programing language.
> http://golang.org/
> 
> http://tech.yahoo.com/news/infoworld/20091110/tc_infoworld/99864
> 
> and for your viewing pleasure:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKnDgT73v8s
> a one hour youtube video!
> 

This is comp.arch.embedded - where's the compilers for non-x86 targets? 
  I suppose that gccgo could be re-targeted, if the run-time library is 
not too difficult to port.

 From a very quick glance, it looks like some good points:

Source in utf-8 with utf-8 support throughout (not a big deal for 
embedded systems, but great for "big" systems);

Proper modules and namespaces;

Useful standard libraries;

Inferred strong typing;

Mandatory braces in for, if and switch statements;

Proper arrays that are distinct from pointers;

Maps (like Python dicts or Perl hashes);

Support for processes and communication;

Explicitly sized integers;


and some bad points:

Separate compiler and linker steps (you'd think they would have learned 
from the "success" of gcc's link-time optimisation project);

Much of the ugliness from C, with a good dose of its own (though less 
than C++ templates);

Currently limited to x86 and amd64.

On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:09:47 -0800, Bob <S...@excite.com> wrote:

>Rich Webb wrote:
>> On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:43:06 +1100, Don McKenzie <5V@2.5A> wrote:
>> 
>>> Google releases new programing language.
>>> http://golang.org/
>>>
>>> http://tech.yahoo.com/news/infoworld/20091110/tc_infoworld/99864
>>>
>>> and for your viewing pleasure:
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKnDgT73v8s
>>> a one hour youtube video!
>> 
>> Looks interesting, in the sed->awk->Perl tradition perhaps.
>> 
>> But "goroutines"? Somebody should be flogged...
>> 
>gotines?
>gootines?
>They got into trouble as soon as they named it "go"

A quite decent review by MarkCC over at Good Math, Bad Math
<http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2009/11/googles_new_language_go.php>;

Mark qualifies as One Smart Cookie and he has had some time to play with
the language since he works at Google. Short version: ... nah, read the
original; it's not too long and has useful insights.

The best, though, was from commentator James H G Redekop: "I get this
feeling they picked the name so that when they put out the next version
of the language, they can call it Go2 and make Dijkstra jokes."

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On 2009-11-12, Grant Edwards <i...@invalid.invalid> wrote:

> When it comes to semantics rather than looks, it still doesn't
> seem all that similar to Python.
[...]

One big difference between Python and Go that I forgto to
mention is that go is statically typed while Python is
dynamically typed.  That's a pretty fundamental difference.

I use Python every day, and I really don't see where the
comparison to Python comes from.  To me it looks more like
cleaned up Java or C with garbage collection.

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Rich Webb wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:43:06 +1100, Don McKenzie <5V@2.5A> wrote:
>
>>
>> Google releases new programing language.
>> http://golang.org/
>>
>> http://tech.yahoo.com/news/infoworld/20091110/tc_infoworld/99864
>>
>> and for your viewing pleasure:
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKnDgT73v8s
>> a one hour youtube video!
>
> Looks interesting, in the sed->awk->Perl tradition perhaps.
>
> But "goroutines"? Somebody should be flogged...

Can't it print simple words ?  Lazzo may be interested....


geoff 

On Nov 13, 7:43=A0am, Don McKenzie <5...@2.5A> wrote:
> Google releases new programing language.http://golang.org/
>
> http://tech.yahoo.com/news/infoworld/20091110/tc_infoworld/99864
>
> and for your viewing pleasure:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DrKnDgT73v8=
s
> a one hour youtube video!
>
> Cheers Don...

Interesting, but missing was a For each,
which is a rather glaring omission on something that hopes to improve
what is already out there ?

No examples, and no EXE sizes listed
( it does create standalone EXEs, right ? )

I also liked Microsoft's ASMl language... on the topic of research-lab-
languages...

-jg