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Possibly because Rob Pike is not a fan of syntax highlighting, calling it juvenile. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/golang-nuts/hJHCAaiL0so/kG3BHV6QFfIJ
by tujv 10y ago
Possibly because Rob Pike is not a fan of syntax highlighting, calling it juvenile.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/golang-nuts/hJHCAaiL0so/kG3BHV6QFfIJ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/golang-nuts/hJHCAaiL0s...
- ramchip 10y agoWow, his second response is really demeaning. Or maybe it's just a shock to me after hanging out in really friendly communities (Elixir etc.) for a while...
- twr 10y agoPike literally quoted a passage from the bible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_Corinthians_13 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_Corinthians_13 I won't argue that it was in good taste.
- QuercusMax 10y agoIf by "literally quoted", you mean paraphrased... Or is this just another case where literally doesn't mean literally?
- twr 10y agoNo. Sorry. I should have linked to the NASB translation, which was the source of his (literal) quote. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+13%3A11&version=NASB https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+1...
- jasonwatkinspdx 10y agoOn the whole I've found the golang community to be quite positive and enforcing good norms about crappy behavior. I wouldn't assume too much from a post Rob made 4 years ago.
- protomyth 10y agoI feel bad for the person who wanted it on := lines because of sight issues.
- nedsma 10y agoMaybe it has to do something with the fact that Go's grammar is modest in size, being only 25 keywords. Compare that with C99 - 37, C++11 - 84, Rust 52 etc.