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It turns out that Google is a collection of people with similar aims but differing views, not a cabal of braniacs. The original paper was written by a Googler
by evmar 15y ago
It turns out that Google is a collection of people with similar aims but differing views, not a cabal of braniacs. The original paper was written by a Googler who likely published it on his own for fun (and clearly without review from a Go developer); Russ Cox (also a Googler) "shreded" the paper here without himself passing it by the Scala enthusiasts for their take on it, etc.
Russ masterfully also demonstrated the Google cultural value of politeness, so I expect the results of this blog post will be taken in the gracious manner in which they were written.
- dchest 15y agoYou're right. Here's what Ian Lance Taylor (one of the Go developers) said: "Robert asked me to take a look at his code and I hacked on it for an hour to make a little bit nicer. If I had realized that he was going to publish it externally I would have put a lot more time into making it nicer." https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-nuts/G8L4af-Q9WE/MNY-zUk1r_MJ https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-nuts/G8L4af-Q9WE/MNY-...
- uriel 15y ago> Russ Cox (also a Googler) "shreded" the paper here without himself passing it by the Scala enthusiasts for their take on it, etc. But russ didn't claim anything regarding Scala, the problem with the original paper is that it made explicit and implicit claims regarding Go, Scala, Java, etc. without really bothering to make much of an effort to make the comparison minimally realistic.