[masklinn]

> From the preface: "achieving maximum effect with minimum means."

Wouldn't be out of place at a marketing agency, with about the same level of truth too.

> Sort of the anti-Perl?

In what sense? The one thing you can say about Perl is that it's a huge language, so the anti-perl would be a very small language. Go isn't a very small language (like Forth), it isn't even a small one (like Smalltalk or Self) it's about the same size/complexity as an early Java. Somewhat bigger in some ways (more magical builtins and constructs) somewhat smaller in others (simpler visibility rules, no synchronised methods/blocks), but in the best case it's a wash.

> Go is very contrarian, and I applaud this.

Perl is also very contrarian.

[rudolf0]

I think it's fair to call Go an anti-Perl.

Perl is very liberal. There's always more than one way to do things.

Go is very conservative, in comparison.

I'd agree that both are contrarian, but for very different reasons.

[masklinn]

> I think it's fair to call Go an anti-Perl.

Then again, pretty much anything can fairly be called an anti-Perl, possibly even Perl.