On 2009-11-12, Patrick Sabin <patrick.just4...@gmail.com> wrote: > kj wrote: >> >> I'm just learning about Google's latest: the GO (Go?) language. >> (e.g. http://golang.org or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKnDgT73v8s). >> There are some distinctly Pythonoid features to the syntax, such >> as "import this_or_that", the absence of parentheses at the top of >> flow control constructs, and quite a few statements without a >> trailing semicolon. Then again, there's a lot that looks distinctly >> un-Pythonlike, such as the curly brackets all over the place. And >> among the un-Pythonlike stuff there's a lot that looks like nothing >> else that I've ever seen... > > I don't see many similarities with python,
Same here. Go syntax is much more like C/Java than Python. Sematically, I don't see much that's similar either. Go is statically typed. Go has no inheritence. Go has no exceptions ( no practical error handling AFAICT). Despite all the people who keep saying it's similar to Python, I don't really see what they're talking about. It seems more like C with garbage collection and interfaces, or maybe cleaned-up Java. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I have a VISION! It's at a RANCID double-FISHWICH on visi.com an ENRICHED BUN!! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list