Google definitely biased…

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 13 August 2014 at 10:03:35 UTC, Chris wrote:
> On Tuesday, 12 August 2014 at 16:43:18 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>>>> If Google dropped Go tomorrow, there would be immediate 
>>>> backing for new
>>>> management of a fork.
>>>
>>> Sure, and we would have Go+, GNUGo, FreeGo (discontinued) and 
>>> whatnot, each having a different philosophy. There would be 
>>> flame wars on the internet and nobody would know which kind 
>>> of Go to use.
>>>
>>
>> Just like any open language implementation out there.
>>
>> CRuby vs JRuby vs RubyMotion vs ...
>> CPython vs Jython vs ...
>> Clang vs gcc vs msvc vs icc vs aC++ vs xlc vs ....
>>
>> Or for that matter
>>
>> Dmd vs ldc vs gdc
>
> Which is not what I meant. For Python and C etc there is still 
> one reference implementation of the language, regardless of 
> compilers or additional frameworks. What I meant were different 
> _implementations_ of the language with different features and 
> libraries, like Phobos and Tango (back in the day). That might 
> happen to Go, if Google let it, well, go.

There isn't such a thing as one reference implementation for C, 
given the amount of undefined and unspecified behavior in the 
standard.

To the point many C developers mistakenly take their compiler 
behavior, and extensions, as what to expect from the standard.

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Paulo