On Mon, 2017-07-31 at 12:21 -0500, John McKown wrote: > […] > An excellent approach to all languages. If someone doesn't like "go", > then use a different language. Or be like some people and invent your own > to address the perceived problems with all the other languages in existence. >
Once a programming language goes into production and invokes "backward compatibility" it rarely improves by evolution. cf. Fortran, Java. Invariably, improvement in programming happens by new programming languages arriving on the scene and being picked up (or not). Each programming language that gains traction invariably goes into decline as new languages pop up to replace it. But remember COBOL, FORTRAN, Fortran, and C still have large codebases in place even though very few people would consider writing new code in those languages. Go, Rust, D, etc. will travel the same path after their period of being very popular. > -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@winder.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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