GO vs Python

[Rustom Mody]

On Monday, August 25, 2014 5:36:25 PM UTC+5:30, Roy Smith wrote:
>  Rustom Mody  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, 

Precisely:
- Compiled language + fast compilation
- Static binaries -- better (in the sense of more lo-level) than C's default
- Static strongly typed + type-inference
- Interfaces instead of inheritance
- And of course "I want a google-job"

and probably many others can be the deciders for many people

> ... 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 M�tley Cr�e and Beyonc�, I would be more 
> concerned about the character model.

Funny!!
Your mail client seems to be 7-bit ASCII!!