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Speaking of Rob Pike, don't see his name on any of the Go2 proposals. His lucidity and circumspection are sorely missed. Could we be witnessing the psychologi
by everybodyknows 8y ago
Speaking of Rob Pike, don't see his name on any of the Go2 proposals. His lucidity and circumspection are sorely missed.
Could we be witnessing the psychological phenomenon of a "second-system effect" -- as described in The Mythical Man-Month -- writ very large?
- ainar-g 8y agoThe only person from the original three creators who still actively takes part in the language's evolution seems to be Robert Griesemer. Ken Thompson is retired, and Rob Pike seems to have moved to other projects (Upspin?). Robert Griesemer is still active, but mostly "debugging" the language specification. The impression I get is that Russ Cox is pretty much the Chief Designer right now (pardon the Sergey Korolyov reference). The original three authors have said that they would not add a feature to the language if one of them opposed it, which is how they kept it simple. I wonder if rsc has anyone to say "no" to him.