GO vs Python

[Roy Smith]

In article <d8811b7e-fc37-447c-848d-f3bd314aff5e at googlegroups.com>,
 Rustom Mody <rustompmody at gmail.com> wrote:

> Heh! You make it sound that the character model is the most important thing
> in choosing a language!
> There are people using Fortran -- with not intention of finding
> an alternative.

Different people have different needs.  If I was writing code to do 
number crunching, I wouldn't care much if I could only print 7-bit 
ascii.  If I was writing code to serve music on the web and had to 
display artist names like Mötley Crüe and Beyoncé, I would be more 
concerned about the character model.