Go: A new system programing language

[Joel C. Salomon]

On 11/11/2009 8:47 PM, dsimcha wrote:
> == Quote from Walter Bright (newshound1 at digitalmars.com)'s article
>> hasenj wrote:
>>> Do you think D would benefit if you add this (or similar) feature to it?
>> Sean is working on a message passing (CSP) package for D. I'm not
>> convinced it needs to be a core language feature, though.
>
> This is true.  After I created ParallelFuture (the lib w/ parallel foreach, map,
> reduce), a friend mentioned that my model was pretty similar to the OpenMP model.
>   I read a little about OpenMP and it really hit home how powerful a language D is,
> given that I was able to implement something OpenMP-ish as a pure library, without
> any modifications to the compiler.  The fact that message passing is built into
> Go! makes me wonder if there's a reason why it can't be done well in a library.

Most stuff can be done decently well in a library -- imagine Plan 9’s 
libthread with channels implemented input/output ranges.  Select is ugly 
though, without some language support; perhaps D’s compile-time stuff 
can implement a select block.

—Joel Salomon