"In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is." There's more to designing a useful language than is found in Pierce's b

"In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is." There's more to designing a useful language than is found in Pierce's book. The Go design team had some very specific things they were trying to do, and they did pretty well at doing them, and they produced a language that some people have found to be useful for writing some kinds of software. I'm going to guess that they had a lot more experience at actually writing software than Pierce did. So maybe you shouldn't automatically assume that Pierce is the final word, and that anyone who decides different has to be wrong.