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Wow, lots of hating...

cabdriverjim 12th Nov 2009

I'm glad to see we have so many programming language experts on ZDNet. Since we all know Ken Thomson and Rob Pike don't know anything about programming languages. Oh, wait, right, most software in existence is written in languages and using practices they developed along with many others on their team.

I, for one, am thrilled by the prospects of this new language. However, I actually understand why they need it. Google has two choices capable of working _at_all_ with their MapReduce based architecture: Java or Python. They both suck to varying degrees for that purpose. The big win is with multi-processor, multi-node software that needs to deal with concurrency and scalability problems. That's not a matter of "fixing" an existing language. It really is a matter of starting from scratch, IMHO. All the rest is gravy.