They took his Jars!

(They Took His Dog! (Southpark))

Great! Google announced a new programming language called Go. It looks a like a cross between JavaScript x Python x C. Why go invent another language, like we don't already have enough? There's Scala, Clojure, Groovy, JRuby, not to mention plain Ruby... Does this mean they gave up on C++0x? Looks like it.

I read this y'day on someone's blog and I couldn't agree with him more:

Source: Benjamin Black