Andy Burns wrote:
Tim Watts wrote:

Google's new Go language looks rather interesting:

http://golang.org/

Seems like syntactic fiddling about ...

Fair enough, some reasonable bits from java/javascript backported to C.

But I *like* semicolons, and I don't like being told where to put my
braces.

If you're going to mess with = and := operators, wouldn't it be more
useful to clarify assignment/equality, rather than muddy the water with
combined declaration/assignment?

Channels, what are they? Co-routines disguised as arguments to functions?

When a programmer is bored by new languages, is he bored with life?

No, he has just grown up.

there are as far as I am concerned only three languages really.


Structured procedural, FORTH and the specialised business oriented ones
like COBOL (which is really structrured procedural) and SQL.

OOP languages are just extensions on structured procedural, whatever
their proponents may say, extensions that often make life harder for
programmers.