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So they had enough time to observe these things in mainstream languages and recognize that a lot of them are not worth the hassle.

• pjmlp 13y ago
  Actually I think that given that they gave birth to one of the most unsafe languages on the planet, and publicly ranted against OO and FP languages during their career, they have choosen to ignore them as a political decision.
  • kyrra 13y ago
    What makes it unsafe? The worst you can do is cause your program to panic (which you can recover).
    • iv_08 13y ago
      He's talking about C, not Go. Because Ken Thompson created B, the precursor of C.