Subj : Google's Go language
To   : Nightfox
From : art
Date : Thu Oct 13 2011 07:11:00

  Re: Google's Go language
  By: Nightfox to art on Wed Oct 12 2011 13:10:23

Hi Nightfox,

 > I'm curious about it, but one thing that keeps me from using different
 > programming languages is that I'd like to be able to re-use code in other
 > projects, but if you use a different language, it'll make that harder to do.
 > If I were to have lots of things written in many different languages and I
 > want to re-use some code, I may end up having to re-implement the code in
 > the
 > worst- case scenario.  It would be nice to just be able to take a function
 > (or
 > set of functions) and just include it in another project and use it.


Agreed, one of my largest pains is porting already written code. Sqlite
libraries I have coded for example, I tend to re-write in pretty much every
language I code in, major painage.

With CLR and COM things are a bit easier, however Google Go does not support
either of these from what little I know.

I think it's down to a few factors:

- Know what languages are out there and where they shine.
- Know what your coding requirements are.
- Choose a language based on those, and your comfort.

At the end of the day, I find that coding is very much like art, with the
language akin to the medium used: we'd rarely say oil pastels are better than
water colour in terms of quality of art... we'd more likely say, artist X is
better than artist Y.

In the same vein, I really believe the coder is what defines the quality of the
program, not the programming language.

Kind regards,

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