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Most things don't seem surprising in hindsight. That's why you don't judge surprises by it. Surprising was GP's original term, not mine. I don't expect Go or
by cageface 14y ago
Most things don't seem surprising in hindsight. That's why you don't judge surprises by it.
Surprising was GP's original term, not mine.
I don't expect Go or any other language to displace C++ any time soon. But I do think the "scripting" languages are very vulnerable to challenges from languages with static typing systems less primitive than Java's.
- StavrosK 14y agoThat's because the GP was surprised. I rather should have said, you don't judge that something wasn't surprising by hindsight. Hindsight makes things obvious.