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As Richard Hamming used to say ~"You can pretty much ignore those who discovered a field". Do not worry _at all_ that Rob Pike is finding colors juvenile. His
by crististm 8y ago
As Richard Hamming used to say ~"You can pretty much ignore those who discovered a field".
Do not worry _at all_ that Rob Pike is finding colors juvenile. His opinion is just that.
If it's worth anything, I'd put it in the same category as Linus's distaste for debugging tools.
- tokai 8y agoI love how childish it is to think that his personal experience of learning arithmetic, is worth anything regarding syntax highlighting. In some way it even undermines him. Why did he use coloured rods as a child? Because it helps reduce cognitive load! To define easier things as childish and harder things as adult, is elitist and hostile to other people.
- thatswrong0 8y agoRob Pike also thinks abstractions like map, reduce, and filter are pointless because you can just write a for loop. Hence, we have Go.