One of these languages is not like the others.

None of these languages are like the others.

Each language is like the others in that it has become associated primarily with a single organization.

That's what I was attempting to convey, not any similarity between the languages themselves (the erroneous and unfortunate mention of C++, notwithstanding).

I believe they're referring to syntax, in which case, Go is rather unlike the others.

No, I think he's referring to C# which runs on a VM.

You couldn't write an operating system, or realtime code in C#.

It's not even in the same league as the other three, and would be better compared to Java.

> No, I think he's referring to C# which runs on a VM.

This is not true. The CLR is just one of many C# implementations.

Mono provides a native compiler for C#.

Bartok is a native compiler for C# from Microsoft Research.

> You couldn't write an operating system, or realtime code in C#.

Except people have already done it in the past.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/singularity/

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=5271...

http://singularity.codeplex.com/

http://cosmos.codeplex.com/

> It's not even in the same league as the other three, and would be better compared to Java.

Similarly to Modula-3, C# has all the required low level capabilities for systems programming with unsafe blocks and annotations.

It should be compulsory for everyone to learn about compiler design, before comparing programming languages.

Fair enough. I should have specified CLR instead of C# in general.

That said, I stand by my argument that it is better compared to Java, though the later revisions have been adding more C++-esque low level features. I find C# a good compromise.

> It should be compulsory for everyone to learn about compiler design, before comparing programming languages.

My oversight, and difference of opinion with you does not mean I'm an uneducated idiot. I wrote a (limited) C compiler in my undergrad and programming languages was large mandatory portion of 4th year. If you rear-ended somebody on your morning commute, I'm not going to assume you're a dangerous driver and should be pulled off the road.

This is Hacker News - not Reddit. The least we can do is act like that means something.

In that regard, Objective C is unlike the others because it uses SmallTalk style message passing.

I think Andrei is being clever more than anything. They're all different in many ways.

Which?

Objective-C isn't exactly a "post-C++ language". The two languages showed up around the same time in the 80's and have orthogonal object models (in a very concrete sense given the existence of Objective-C++).

You're right, and Go was being touted as a modern C, not a new C++. Writing "post-C++" was a mistake.