GO vs Python

[Roy Smith]

In article <cb2aff1b-c091-48b5-90f5-d82c6060b148 at googlegroups.com>,
 Rustom Mody <rustompmody at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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!!

Well, not my mail client.  My NNTP client.  I'm running a hideously 
outdated client (MT-Newswatcher) because I love the U/I.  Unfortunately, 
it's pretty braindead in the unicode department.