> C++ and java feel highly inconsistent and are full of stupid busywork > and strange programming philosophies that you have to "learn" about,
Chances are Go would not be what it is, if it was anything at all, without the mistakes of C++ and Java (the latter are a mystery to me I am not even remotely interested in unravelling - but I'm lucky that way). For what that's worth. I enjoy the facility with which bugs are identified and often even avoided in Go, I'm not as keen on the "Program development by progressive approximation" development technique I seem to have fallen into :-) ++L
