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As someone else here said, it may not be Kernighan who said that, but Rob Pike. And he didn't say lowest common denominator developer, he said something like j
by fuzztester 3y ago
As someone else here said, it may not be Kernighan who said that, but Rob Pike.
And he didn't say lowest common denominator developer, he said something like junior Google developer.
And IIRC he said it somewhere in his blog, called command-central.blogspot.com or some such.
- throwaway894345 3y agoHe was also contrasting it with C++ which has many dozens of features and a developer has to understand the interplay between all of them to use the language effectively.
- fuzztester 3y agoRight, I remember, and in this case, "a developer" applied to not just future junior Googlers, but also him and some of his project mates, and in that same post he said they hated or at least disliked those issues with C++.
- fuzztester 3y agoNot sure if this post below is the same as that post mentioned above, since it's some years since I first read the above one, but the one below is interesting anyway: Less is exponentially more: https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/06/less-is-exponentially-more.html?m=1 https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/06/less-is-exponenti...