Whatever the thing is in Lisp/Smalltalk that makes people excited about programming is the thing that's excised and neutered in Go.
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@patrickc you say "language neatly eviscerated of dangerous possibilities" as if that were a bad thing. -
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@patrickc I know lots of people excited about Go but for ~exclusively practical reasons. Not *huge* overlap with excited-about-Lisp circle. -
@patrickc Simplicity mandate makes it much easier to drop in & immediately orient. V important for updating often-static infra/plumbing.
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@patrickc: In a way, Go seems a successful version of what Java was aiming for. A language neatly eviscerated of dangerous possibilitiesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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