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by ape4 3900 days ago
er, they left a couple things out of the family tree (page xii). Like C++, Java, C#, ...
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It's safe to say that C++ had an influence on the Go language at least as what not to do. The emphasis on language simplicity and compile speed seemed to be a result of fairly large C++ code bases at Google.
"Other constructions in Go show the influence of non-ancestral genes here and there"