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by baq 1150 days ago
Go is basically Pascal with a sprinkle of first class concurrency anyway…
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anta40 1150 days ago
One of Go's designer, Rob Griesemer, was a Phd student Niklaus Wirth. Hmm...
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pjmlp 1150 days ago
Go's method syntax is taken from Oberon-2, just like unsafe package is pretty much the same purpose as SYSTEM.
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AnimalMuppet 1150 days ago
And, if I understand correctly, Go stole its object file format (or at least large-scale design) from Modula-2.
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pjmlp 1150 days ago
That I doubt it, given Modula-2 package design, how symbols are made public and type system differences.

If you mean packages as modules, other languages predate Modula-2 in that matter.

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AnimalMuppet 1150 days ago
No, I mean the object file defines the public symbols at the start of the file. Go very deliberately stole that feature. Rob Pike said that using that idea let Go do something faster when compiling, though I don't remember the details.
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Tozen 1150 days ago
There is some embellishment in that statement, but people coming from Pascal/Oberon would likely feel much more comfortable using Go, than other C family languages. This would also include Vlang, and to an extent, Odin as well. These two have both been heavily influenced by Go and Pascal.
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