Another Go at Language Design - Stanford University

Another Go at Language Design

Rob Pike



April 28, 2010



Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Who

Russ Cox Robert Griesemer Rob Pike Ian Taylor Ken Thompson

plus David Symonds, Nigel Tao, Andrew Gerrand, Stephen Ma, and others,

plus many contributions from the open source community.

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Part 1

1. History 2. A niche 3. Tour of Go 4. Status

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

History

I'm always delighted by the light touch and stillness of early programming languages. Not much text; a lot gets done. Old programs read like quiet conversations between a well-spoken research worker and a wellstudied mechanical colleague, not as a debate with a compiler. Who'd have guessed sophistication bought such noise? -Dick Gabriel

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Sophistication

If more than one function is selected, any function template specializations in the set are eliminated if the set also contains a non-template function, and any given function template specialization F1 is eliminated if the set contains a second function template specialization whose function template is more specialized than the function template of F1 according to the partial ordering rules of 14.5.6.2. After such eliminations, if any, there shall remain exactly one selected function. (C++0x, ?13.4 [4])

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

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