Re: [9fans] Go

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Oberon had POINTER TO, and acted in what you might expect from a
TurboPascal.

Also, wrt pointers, the original Primos was written in Fortran IV, although
it was later moved to the PL/I dialect PL/P.

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 12:13 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>wrote:

> > Because it is constantly compared with C, C++, Java, and scripting
> > languages. Its packages are sold as better than C header files, which
> > is demonstrated in Russ' compile time video. It is a compiled language.
> > Its syntax is not horribly divergent from C.
>
> none of this line of reasoning bears on go's designer's
> intentions.  and i would be surprised (shocked actually)
> if a vm were omitted for language positioning reasons,
> rather than technical ones.
>
> > It has support for pointers, so I guess so. I'd guess it's somewhat
> > easier than C++, where you have to have an implementation for new
> > before you can do much of anything else very C++-like. That said,
> > it does have a language runtime like C++, so I suspect it does need
> > some setup before some features (such as threads) can be used.
>
> support for pointers isn't a requirement (cf: oberon).
>
> also there are many things that a language can subtily make
> writing a kernel in that language very difficult or impossible.
>
> given that go has a runtime, it's reasonable to ask if the
> runtime can be prevented from bothering interrupt routines
> and other critical sections.  (was this a problem with alef?)
>
> - erik
>
>


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