Re: Influence of Lua on Go?

[Miles Bader <miles@...>]

steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Gé Weijers <ge@weijers.org> wrote:
>> Clu (Liskov et. al., 1974) had both multiple return values and
>> iterators/generators.
>
> Very interesting language! Accordiing to wikipedia, it was very influential:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLU_%28programming_language%29
>
> Not only iterators and multiple returns, but exception handling and
> automatic memory management. (Although of course the last claim is
> always trumped by Lisp)

Also generic programming, using "type parameters" with constraints.

CLU is a super cool language (it was used for many CS classes when I was
an undergraduate).

-Miles

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