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> designed so that a mediocre programmer can produce passable code That's a little unfair, if accurate. Even the best of us are mediocre programmers when fixin
by anonacct37 9y ago
> designed so that a mediocre programmer can produce passable code
That's a little unfair, if accurate. Even the best of us are mediocre programmers when fixing a bug in the middle of the night or diving into a new code base.
You might as well say (and some do) that Haskell is for mediocre programmers because good programmers don't make type mistakes.
> a compiler that tells them off for not properly commenting their code
Are you still talking about go and if so would you mind sending a link because as someone who has written it professionally since pre-go1.0 and contributed multiple changes to the go repo I haven't the faintest idea what you are talking about.
- hoopladler 9y agoI'm actually kind of embarassed by how innacurate my post was, but I can't edit it with corrections.