Google's Go

[John D]

"Andrei Alexandrescu" <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote in message 
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> John D wrote:
>> "bearophile" <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote in message 
>> news:hjh61f$2c62$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>> Recently I've seen this, is it possible to write an equally short &
>>>  safe & easy program in D2 (using the concurrency features being 
>>> developed)? 
>>> http://grammerjack.blogspot.com/2010/01/writing-bittorrent-client-in-go.html
>>>
>>>
>>> (In computer language history it's happened often that a worse
>>> language (let's say Go) becomes more widespread than a "better" one
>>> ).
>>>
>>
>> I'm not sure that is true. Actually, I think it is not true. People
>> say that about Windows all the time too. While I KNOW much better
>> OSes are possible, there really is (or was all this time, I haven't
>> used the new Macs but I wouldn't want to do Unix-style programming
>> anyway, so it's underpinnings do not appeal to me, FWIW) no
>> comparable competitor.
>>
>> On the flipside, I think C++ is a crappy language, but it's still the
>> best one out there (IMO, until I implement my own, of course) and I
>> use it but I liked using it better before I knew so much about it.
>
> As Napoleon said - every soldier carries a marshal's baton :o).
>

I can look that up, but it's easier if I just ask you to explain your 
curt comment and how it relates as a response to my post. Pray tell!