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Go and AWK-related anecdote: When I was at Google and learning Golang we had to go through readability review from people who know how to do idiomatic golang.
by awkthrowaway 5y ago
Go and AWK-related anecdote: When I was at Google and learning Golang we had to go through readability review from people who know how to do idiomatic golang.
One day I realised that my pretty trivial code was being reviewed by the "W" from AWK.
Felt kinda starstruck. He had no review comments on my code :)
- benhoyt 5y agoNice! My star-struck story is I had lunch with Peter Weingberger (the W) at Google a couple of years back. Neat guy, smart and opinionated. He was working on VSCode's Go integration, if I remember correctly. Asked him what he would change about AWK if doing it again, he said probably the implicit string concatenation syntax by putting two expressions next to each other.