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@Kermit: I've always thought the same thing about C++, just way too much to learn.

@zacs7: I'm a big fan of looking at language implementation comparisons, and Computer Language Benchmarks Game seems to show Go being completely terrible in the sense that it can do some things very fast, but some things even slower than Ruby.

I've always been a fan of using Lisp for string processing, but Python isn't bad either.

[zacs7]

@Kermit: I've always thought the same thing about C++, just way too much to learn.

@zacs7: I'm a big fan of looking at language implementation comparisons, and Computer Language Benchmarks Game seems to show Go being completely terrible in the sense that it can do some things very fast, but some things even slower than Ruby.

I've always been a fan of using Lisp for string processing, but Python isn't bad either.

Go is still very new -- late 2009 was its initial release. And there are two implementations, the 6g/8g compilers and the gccgo compiler (the latter being a front-end for GCC). They ran the tests on the 6g/8g compilers and not the gccgo compiler (which sports the GCC C compiler optimization features).

Language speed isn't everything -- when you buy a drill, do you pick the one with the fastest RPM? I don't think so :-)