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by Roboprog 4776 days ago
Alas, "Go" was forced to look sorta like C, even though it really acts more like Modula with closures and garbage collection. (ignoring that C & Modula are both just redressed Algol)

Go is more of a C-like counter example of the things the author is talking about, with its authoritarian use of K&R curly brace formatting, and not making statements into expressions.