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This is not a very accurate summary of said article. In fact it is inaccurate enough to call it lying.

• EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 1y ago
  That's not a summary. That's a number of quotes demonstrating Mr. Kernighan's judgements about PL virtues that didn't stand the test of time.
  • nmz 1y ago
    BEGIN and END are still bulky, Even C got it wrong by making () mandatory instead of {}, which is something go fixed.
  • Arainach 1y ago
    It's a significantly incomplete list - and absolutely not a list of "quotes" as none of the items in your list appear in the article: >Lack of external static storage class, the pinnacle of C programming. >Lack of oh so powerful C strings, terminating in zero (hopefully). >"There is no way to override the type mechanism when necessary, nothing analogous to the "cast" mechanism in C." >"begin" and "end" are bulky compared to { and }. In my opinion these are some of the less significant arguments. Your post never stated that it contains merely a subset a subset and instead claims to refute or weaken the overall proposal. I agree with the previous poster that this is a form of lying. For instance, you ignored one of the very first and most significant points, "The size of an array is part of its type" which means that " it makes it difficult indeed to create a library of routines for doing common, general-purpose operations like sorting" Incidentally, those are examples of quotes i.e. verbatim excerpts from the article.
    • froh 1y ago
      then maybe amend your comment and start with "some of his grievances"?