...or doesn't know what an abstract class is.
What about functional programmers?
What do you think all the crystals are in the Final Fantasy games?
Yeah I couldn't help think of FF or chrono trigger, or maybe the futurama episode with chronotons.
I actually like ML style: "let foo = bar in zed".
I agree that curly braced languages should stay as curly braced languages, but it's myopic to assume it's the only choice for scoping when designing a new one.
In any event, you're right that what is broken about GO is not really the scoping mechanisms.
"It says he made us all to be just like him. So if we're dumb, then god is dumb, and maybe even a little ugly on the side." -- Frank Zappa