[Fwd: Re: [go-nuts] Need for official package manager]

[Paulo Pinto]

On Sunday, 30 March 2014 at 20:54:54 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> On 3/30/2014 10:01 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>>
>> Sometimes I wonder if anyone would care, if the language wasn't
>> sponsored by Google.
>>
>
> Isn't that pretty much the main reason it ever got any 
> attention in the first place? Not to be snide, just that that's 
> been my observation.

I would say yes.

The first features that caught my eye was the Pascal influence in 
type declarations and Oberon-2's influence in package format and 
how methods are attached to types. Not surprising given that 
Robert Griesemer has studied at ETHZ.

Then as language archeologist that I am, I delved into Limbo's 
documentation, the system language for Inferno, Plan9 successor. 
A project where Rob Pike, Ken Thomson and Dennis Ritchie were 
also involved.

It is quite interesting to see how Go is basically a lifting of 
Limbo with a bit of Oberon-2 on the side.

Both languages failed in the market at large and except for 
archeologists like myself no one cares about them, most likely by 
not having such heavy height behind them.

--
Paulo