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Are we just ignoring when they invited Philip “Featherweight Java” Wadler to help them design Go generics? https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.11710 https://arxiv.org/ab
by riwsky 2y ago
Are we just ignoring when they invited Philip “Featherweight Java” Wadler to help them design Go generics?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.11710 https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.11710
Or that Robert Griesemer literally is a language PhD, whose thesis was supervised by a little fellow by the name of “Niklaus Wirth”?
https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/handle/20.500.11850/141363?show=full https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/handle/20.500.11850/...
- pjmlp 2y agoNo, but that isn't what Rob Pike meant, that was the Go design team accepting they alone weren't capable to implement generics in Go, without help from those PhD folks.