One year of Go

[Jeff Nowakowski]

On 11/12/2010 11:29 AM, Sean Kelly wrote:
> To me, what they're saying is that their syntax is broken and so it
> forces a convention upon the users to deal with the issue.  I know
> this is just a bike shed issue, but seeing something like this in the
> beginning of the tutorial makes it difficult for me to take them
> seriously.

Yes, semicolons are a bike shed issue, and dismissing the whole language 
because of that is petty. Walter has made a point in the past about 
people who will look for one reason to dismiss something.

There are ideas worth looking at in Go, whether you decide to use the 
language or not.