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> I think it's fair to say Rob Pike and his team are very clever Rob's cleverness and contributions to computer science are indisputable, but that doesn't mak
by laureny 14y ago
> I think it's fair to say Rob Pike and his team are very clever
Rob's cleverness and contributions to computer science are indisputable, but that doesn't make him a good language designer.
From what I've seen of Go, it seems like it was designed by a team that stopped looking at other programming languages in the late 90's.
- coolsunglasses 14y agoLate 90's is being gracious to a language that smells like an ALGOL and Pascal cross-over. Leaves me to wonder why some of these people bothered with C to begin with and didn't just use Pascal. Momentum in the Unix world maybe?