> > I'm not sure if "in English" really describes Go. Languages like Ruby > purport to offer English-like syntax (see "Beautiful Code: Leading > Programmers Explain How They Think") through metaprogramming tricks. On the > other hand, Go strives for simplicity and, in my opinion, clarity -- even > at the cost of verbosity in some cases. Whereas Ruby "reads like an essay", > code written in Go "does what it says."
Well there’s the capitalization for export rule, the keywords and built-in identifiers are English, and all toolchain comments and API are in English. There's discussion about a transliteration tool and translation strategy here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-dev/BJXwjd3VEfM Thanks for the discount code. Matt On Wednesday, March 7, 2018 at 9:09:26 PM UTC-6, Nathan Youngman wrote: > > Hi Matthew, > > First of all, thanks for looking at the free chapters and providing > feedback. > > I think I should reword the paragraph about the data centre, because there > is what Go was initially announced as, and then there is the niche that it > now occupies -- the later being predominately network services that tend to > run in data centres (65% according to > https://blog.golang.org/survey2017-results). > > I'm not sure if "in English" really describes Go. Languages like Ruby > purport to offer English-like syntax (see "Beautiful Code: Leading > Programmers Explain How They Think") through metaprogramming tricks. On the > other hand, Go strives for simplicity and, in my opinion, clarity -- even > at the cost of verbosity in some cases. Whereas Ruby "reads like an essay", > code written in Go "does what it says." > > The book layout isn't final, as it's still in early access. I think it > will look much nicer after it goes through the production phase -- finger's > crossed. A fair amount of that is outside of my control as the author. Even > the book cover is out of my hands, though I can and have given the > publisher feedback. > > As far as competition, the only book that comes to mind as > beginner-oriented is Caleb Doxsey's "Introducing Go" published through > O'Reilly. There may be others that I'm not aware of. > http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920046516.do I'm not sure if either > Caleb's book or ours is suitable for the absolute beginner. Learning > something like Scratch may be advisable first, to get the concepts down. > > Nathan. > > P.S. If you decide to buy a copy or recommend it to others, the discount > code *39youngman* will give 39% off either the paper book or ebook. Also, > my affiliate link earns me a few bucks: https://bit.ly/programminggo > > > On 7 March 2018 at 09:02, <matthe...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Go is designed for the modern data center, but its adoption isn’t >>> restricted to the workplace. >> >> >> While the garbage collector may point to this, and I’ve previously argued >> about data centers stepping on other applications’ feet, my understanding >> is the stated goal is systems programming. This term encompasses anything >> designed as part of a larger system in my mind; OS drivers and components >> have been mentioned, the compiler is written in Go, build and other scripts >> are easy to write in Go, OS CLI tools are great in Go, you’ve mentioned >> embedded programming, small web servers with database definitely work, and >> of course data center applications and infrastructure are a major Go target >> and consumer. >> >> Perhaps something like “Go is designed for programming modern computers >> and computer systems in English” would be more accurate? >> >> I’ve only looked at the three free chapters, but one thing that stands >> out to me is the amount of formatting on each page. Although I’m looking on >> a computer and not at a book, it seems that all of the italics, bolds, >> blocks, lines, references, pictures, and other formatting add noise. I do >> think the graphics are creative, slicing the solar system is great. >> >> It’s been asked here about references for new programmers but I didn’t >> have an answer besides “what do you want to know?”. Can you share your >> competition here? I’ll mention “Get Programming with Go” in the future. >> >> Thanks, >> Matt >> >> On Wednesday, March 7, 2018 at 8:46:58 AM UTC-6, Nathan Youngman wrote: >>> >>> Learn about error handling and concurrent state in the latest release of >>> Get Programming with Go, available from Manning Books. >>> >>> The first draft is complete. If you have any feedback, now’s the time to >>> get it in, as we are currently editing the book before it goes to >>> production. >>> >>> https://bit.ly/programminggo >>> >>> >>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/golang-nuts/_-35shjZqUU/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> golang-nuts...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Nathan Youngman > Email: he...@nathany.com <javascript:> > Web: https://nathany.com > -- 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.
