>But then I look back at what was actually accomplished in that time and it feels pathetic. Surely that must depend on the problem space you're working in. My

>But then I look back at what was actually accomplished in that time and it feels pathetic. Surely that must depend on the problem space you're working in. My impression is exactly the opposite of yours, though I must confess it took me a bit of time to build up an armamentarium of patterns that I could apply to a problem. This seems like the flip-side of the "go is a simple language" coin.