[ThinkWriteMute]

Yet Go still remains as syntax clunky/ugly as ever.

[zach]

For syntax, ugly yet familiar is more successful than obscure yet beautiful nine times out of ten.

[dschobel]

How can you possibly substantiate that statement?

[jacquesm]

java:lisp

[dschobel]

perl:python

Hey this is fun! Now you do one again.

[zach]

Please. Python is so wildly C-like that it uses zero/non-zero for conditions.

[dschobel]

You're either being willfully ignorant or insincere now. Allowing non-boolean values in boolean clauses originated with lisp back in 1960. Furthermore, GvR is on the record as saying that his main influence for python was ABC.