Go: A new system programing language

Nick Sabalausky a at a.a
Wed Nov 11 03:14:11 PST 2009


"Anders F Björklund" <afb at algonet.se> wrote in message 
news:hddph6$2r9t$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Justin Johansson wrote:
>
>> Anyway I think the speaker (Rob Pike) said something along the lines that 
>> "no new systems
>> programming language has been developed in the last ten years" and there 
>> was no mention
>> of D (at least that I picked up).  Wonder if they ever looked at D or if 
>> Walter knows any of
>> these people apart from just name?
>
> They started the project in "late 2007", which is one year after D was
> released. So I guess D is not considered a "new major systems language".
>
> "By mid 2008 the language was mostly designed and the implementation 
> (compiler, run-time) starting to work."  --from the Go Tech talk slides
>
> --anders

I was using D well before late 2006 (and never had any sort of special 
non-public access).

>From some of the stuff I saw on the tutorial page, I noticed a few things 
that seemed like they could easily have been inspired from D.

Of course, being a longtime D user, that "no new systems programming 
language has been developed in the last ten years" kinda pisses me 
off...Although not as pissed as I'll be if the connection with google causes 
its use and popularity to soar past D...from the example code it looks like 
D but with a really garbled and annoying syntax. 





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