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Initial reactions to the new Go programming language (not that I plan to do much systems programming):
* Hooray for returning multiple results
* Hooray for _ as a "don't care" name
* Hooray for concurrency primitives
* Hooray for the type system when compared with C/Java/etc.
* Not sure about the Matlab-like changing function semantics based on the number of returned results asked for
* BOO for the division operator (/) doing integer division on integers but floating-point division on floats
* Hooray for returning multiple results
* Hooray for _ as a "don't care" name
* Hooray for concurrency primitives
* Hooray for the type system when compared with C/Java/etc.
* Not sure about the Matlab-like changing function semantics based on the number of returned results asked for
* BOO for the division operator (/) doing integer division on integers but floating-point division on floats