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4 Sep 2024 21:17:42 EDT (-0400)
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From: Darren New
Date: 11 Nov 2009 23:18:52
Message: <4afb8cac$1@news.povray.org>
nemesis wrote:
> http://golang.org/

Hmmm. Interesting. (Three people have told me about this already. :)

 > Interfaces can be added after the fact if a new idea comes along or fo
r 
testing—without annotating the original types.

That's a good step towards the "next language" bit I was talking about 
earlier. Where unit testing is trivial in the language, or some such.

 > Go's concurrency primitives derive from a different part of the family
 
tree whose main contribution is the powerful notion of channels as first 

class objects.

Very nifty. I suspect I'm going to have to look into this more.

 > It is practical to create hundreds of thousands of goroutines in the s
ame 
address space. If goroutines were just threads, system resources would ru
n 
out at a much smaller number.

And this.

I was very skeptical just glancing thru it at first, but it seems there's
 
more going on than evident at a quick glance.


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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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