Abstract
GO is a new object-oriented programming language developed at Google
by Rob Pike, Ken Thompson, and others. GO has the potential to become a
major programming language. GO deserves an evaluation.
Design patterns document reoccurring problems and their solutions.
The problems presented are programming language independent. Their
solutions, however, are dependent on features programming languages
provide.
In this thesis we use design patterns to evaluate GO. We discuss GO
features that help or hinder implementing design patterns, and present a
pattern catalogue of all 23 Gang-of-Four design patterns with GO specific
solutions.
Furthermore, we present GoHotDraw, a GO port of the pattern dense
drawing application framework JHotDraw. We discuss design and im-
plementation differences between the two frameworks with regards to
GO.
