The Go Programming Language

Does anyone else feels like this is a project run by people that couldn't program well in python or c++?
You need the advantages of a statically typed language in python. Build smart code.
You need the efficiency of C++ with a shorter grammar. Use GCJ.
Inventing a new programming language for each small problem that you face, doesn't look like the way to go for me.

Seems lyk a lot still needs to be done in terms of libraries. I wonder how Go would turn out to be if Donald Knuth were on the Go development team. :)

Ken Thompson is ok, but he's certainly not the greatest or even close.

I disagree. What hasn't changed is the style of the languages and the fundamental concepts. We are programming on a higher level though (higher levels of abstraction and ever more libraries).

Arguing that nothing has fundamentally changed is like arguing that the grammar of a high school student as compared to a novelist hasn't changed. That may be true but entirely misses the point that the vocabulary is larger and the concepts expressed are much more elaborate.

Statically typed language with the easy of dynamically typed languages = type inference. This has been done since the 70's with the ML family of languages.

Extremely limited type inference, no implicit conversions. This in no ML.

I know this sounds premature at the moment (I haven't tried Go yet), but, if all Go's claims are true, then Go really rocks. Looks like a C++ and Python/Lisp hybrid to me! Great job Google!

last reply from me, ..quoted from D compiler front-end license (in the download in case you didn't know ;) )

"Compiler Front End Source - These sources are free, they are redistributable and modifiable
under the terms of the GNU General Public License (attached as gpl.txt),
or the Artistic License (attached as artistic.txt).

It does not apply to anything else distributed by Digital Mars,
including D compiler executables.

-Walter Bright"
read the last sentence.

I'll keep my reply polite:
Maybe I'm wrong or dilusional then or do you really think because he did not choose a GPL licence, you think it's closed source?

Please read backendlicense.txt from dmd.1.041.zip or later
( it's in /dmd/src/dmd/ ) you'll also note the directory called "backend"