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> This feels a bit gratuitously rude Agreed, and I 100% believe that meeting him in person would most likely change my mind. I also 100% believe that he has ev

by lucsky 5y ago

> This feels a bit gratuitously rude Agreed, and I 100% believe that meeting him in person would most likely change my mind. I also 100% believe that he has every right to be an "arrogant prick" for all his contributions and achievements to the field. But that doesn't make him any less insufferable, unfortunately.

nsajko 5y ago
You're missing the point. You're just throwing insults around (again in this comment), without even letting HN readers know what are you referring to. Why do you think Rob Pike is an arrogant prick, or insufferable? Also note that HN has guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- lucsky 5y ago
  > Why do you think Rob Pike is an arrogant prick, or insufferable? Well alright then. How about when he called syntax highlighting "juvenile spitzensparkenblinkelichtzen for kids"? How is that not condescending to pretty much 99% of his peers? And again, how about when he said that the Go language has been designed to allow poor dumb Google engineers to not shoot themselves in the foot with languages for adults like C++? Rob Pike might be able to design three new languages between breakfast and lunch, but yes, I will definitely have a hard time being "kind and not snarky" (see, I read the guidelines ;)) when his name shows up.
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  - dang 5y ago
    Please don't.
  - slownews45 5y ago
    Good lord. Pike's developed a language designed to be easy "to understand and easy to adopt." "It must be familiar, roughly C-like. Programmers working at Google are early in their careers and are most familiar with procedural languages, particularly from the C family. The need to get programmers productive quickly in a new language means that the language cannot be too radical." – Rob Pike They are not researchers, they are engineers. Do I think Pike could develop a language for researches filled with special unicode characters that do magic things? Of course. But this practical approach to a language doesn't make him a giant prick. As someone who has played with "Fancy" languages you get tired of them (and the people using them) after a while.

by lucsky 5y ago

nsajko 5y ago

You're missing the point. You're just throwing insults around (again in this comment), without even letting HN readers know what are you referring to. Why do you think Rob Pike is an arrogant prick, or insufferable? Also note that HN has guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

lucsky 5y ago
> Why do you think Rob Pike is an arrogant prick, or insufferable? Well alright then. How about when he called syntax highlighting "juvenile spitzensparkenblinkelichtzen for kids"? How is that not condescending to pretty much 99% of his peers? And again, how about when he said that the Go language has been designed to allow poor dumb Google engineers to not shoot themselves in the foot with languages for adults like C++? Rob Pike might be able to design three new languages between breakfast and lunch, but yes, I will definitely have a hard time being "kind and not snarky" (see, I read the guidelines ;)) when his name shows up.
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- dang 5y ago
  Please don't.
- slownews45 5y ago
  Good lord. Pike's developed a language designed to be easy "to understand and easy to adopt." "It must be familiar, roughly C-like. Programmers working at Google are early in their careers and are most familiar with procedural languages, particularly from the C family. The need to get programmers productive quickly in a new language means that the language cannot be too radical." – Rob Pike They are not researchers, they are engineers. Do I think Pike could develop a language for researches filled with special unicode characters that do magic things? Of course. But this practical approach to a language doesn't make him a giant prick. As someone who has played with "Fancy" languages you get tired of them (and the people using them) after a while.