Another "Go is Python-like" article.

[John Roth]

On May 21, 8:20 am, Grant Edwards <inva... at invalid.invalid> wrote:
> In a recent Reg article, there's yet more yammering on about how Go is
> somehow akin to Python -- referring to Go as a "Python-C++" crossbreed.
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/20/go_in_production_at_google/
>
> I still don't get it.
>
> What about Go, exactly, do people see as Phython-like?
>
> Go doesn't seem to have any of the salient features (either syntactic
> or semantic) of Python other than garbage collection.
>
> How is Go not just warmed-over Java?
>
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Actually, Go seems to be more C implemented the way the C developers
would have done it if they knew then what they know now. That's not a
joke - look at the names on the development team.

I haven't a clue how anyone can think it's similar to Python. Or Java,
for that matter.

John Roth