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		cjensen on Dec 5, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Go at Google: Language Design in the Service of So... I agree there's much more to the paper, and it's well worth the read. Bounds checking, avoiding pointer arithmetic, garbage collection, and concurrency all make sense at Google's scale. I just think the bashing was misguided in an attempt to better justify adding a subset of Ada to C

enneff on Dec 5, 2012 [–]

I think it's misguided to try and characterize Go as the addition of a subset of Ada to C. ;-)

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