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From a blog post by Rob Pike, one of the designers of Go: "I was asked a few weeks ago, "What was the biggest surprise you encountered rolling out Go?" I knew
by cwyers 12y ago
From a blog post by Rob Pike, one of the designers of Go:
"I was asked a few weeks ago, "What was the biggest surprise you encountered rolling out Go?" I knew the answer instantly: Although we expected C++ programmers to see Go as an alternative, instead most Go programmers come from languages like Python and Ruby. Very few come from C++.
We—Ken, Robert and myself—were C++ programmers when we designed a new language to solve the problems that we thought needed to be solved for the kind of software we wrote. It seems almost paradoxical that other C++ programmers don't seem to care."
http://commandcenter.blogspot.it/2012/06/less-is-exponentially-more.html http://commandcenter.blogspot.it/2012/06/less-is-exponential...
- bsdetector 12y agoI don't think that's an accurate portrayal that they were "C++ programmers" as if to imply they were experts or even proficient at it. Plan 9 doesn't even have a C++ compiler. From his wikipedia bio, Ken Thompson "later refused to work in C++". I think they were surprised that C++ programmers didn't like Go because Pike and Thompson weren't actually C++ programmers. Griesemer however appears to know C++ well.
- kirab 12y agoHistory repeats itself. Same thing happened for Java..