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Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:28:21 -0500
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From: "Devon H. O'Dell" <devon.odell@gmail.com>
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2009/11/12 Roman Shaposhnik <roman@shaposhnik.org>:
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Nick LaForge <nicklaforge@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 7:20 AM, Roman V Shaposhnik <rvs@sun.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Personally I think you'd be better off exploring a connection that a
>>> language called Lua has to C. In the immortal words of Casablanca it
>>> just could be "the begging of a beautiful friendship".
>>
>> Well, it was nice while it lasted.
>
> Huh? I'll agree with you when Go grows a VM. And even then things like
> ... and multi-values (which, of course, are only possible in a dynamically
> typed language) will keep me interested.
>
> Speaking of VMs (and Limbo) -- I'm wondering if Go is eventually going
> to have it anyway. Any reason not to?

It can be perceived as a competitor to C if it has a runtime, but not
if it has a VM. So I don't think it would grow one.

--dho

> Thanks,
> Roman.
>
>