On Saturday, 29 September 2012 at 12:04:50 UTC, Peter Alexander
wrote:
On Saturday, 29 September 2012 at 11:18:40 UTC, Paulo Pinto
wrote:
On Saturday, 29 September 2012 at 10:53:57 UTC, Peter Alexander
My question to you: Is it okay to reject D solely with these
arguments? If not, how is this any different from rejecting
Go solely from its lack of generics?
Because except for Go, all static languages developed after
1990, which managed to gain mainstream use, have some form of
generics.
There's two ways to interpret this sentence:
1. You claim it is okay to reject Go because it differs from
other statically typed languages, or
2. You claim that all statically typed languages must have
generics to be worth using.
I hope it is not 1, and if it is 2 then again, I find this
incredibly unimaginative.
It is 2.
And before you say that it is due to lack of experience with Go.
I have tried. You will find lots of posts made by me about
generics
and doing systems programming with GC enabled languages in gonuts.
Actually, you may even find some early code reviews made to my
early
attempts to create the Windows version of the os.user package.
Which
was latter on picked up by the Go team.
Or the early attempts to support some form of UI in Windows.
So I don't dismiss Go without language experience.
Interestingly, Rob Pike comments on this world view:
http://commandcenter.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/less-is-exponentially-more.html
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I belong to the C++ category he describes there. Actually his
blog entry was discussed to great lengths at Lambda the Ultimate.
Personally I think they are throwing the baby with the water in
terms of language design.
Go would have been a great language before Generic Programming,
Meta-programming and functional programming became mainstream in
the IT corporations.
Nowadays it feels like a step backwards. While using Go I
travelled back in time to my university days when I thought
Oberon or Component Pascal would become mainstream. Languages
which share the same design philosophy.
But that was back in 1994.
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Paulo
