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by anthk 19 days ago
Go ate a big lunch from Java, C and a bit of C++ as a systems' language, which Go was designed as "C sucessor without the C++ bullshit". Even the most modern C (Plan9/9front, not what the ANSI C comitee vomits in every iteration) it's a very different beast.

Still, Common Lisp it's in places where trying to build such kind of software in C/C++ would be a reciper for disasters.

https://www.lispworks.com/success-stories/index.html

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> Common Lisp it's in places where trying to build such kind of software in C/C++ would be a reciper for disasters.

I personally never blame the tools. I have written fairly complex software in 68000 assembler and it (1) worked fine and (2) was highly maintainable. However it was of course much slower to modify than using a higher level language.

M68k asm can be easier than some C++ templates.