Subj : Google's Go language
To   : Nightfox
From : art
Date : Mon Apr 16 2012 09:49:00

  Re: Google's Go language
  By: Nightfox to art on Sun Apr 01 2012 13:53:01

Hey NF,

 > iterator behavior is consistent across the container classes.  More recently
 > I've been working a little bit with Java at work, and its library of
 > container
 > classes don't seem to be as consistent, so I find myself having to look up
 > documentation more often, which I think kills productivity a bit.
I'm 100% with you there. Every API call I look up is slowing me down. I can
appreciate a learning curve, but again, consistency is a really big deal for
me. It's a tough one to reconcile, as I also believe programmers should have
choice and freedom to code in whatever manner and style they choose.

 > things, but they'll still be average at best for other tasks.  I think Perl
 > one such langauge - Perl is really good at automating text processing and
 > be used for other things too, but I think it really shines at text
 > processing.
Aye, I have this opinion as well. However, I have been told many times by perl
monks that perl is "just as easy" or even better than other languages at
parsing and processing. To be honest I'm not a perl guy so my opinion is
somewhat ignorant.

At the end of the day, I think it's up to the dev to choose what they feel is
right. End users will always bitch and complain, and other devs will always say
it should have been coding in another language. Such is life, and such is
choice! :)

Regards,

    art@fatcatsbbsdotcom  

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