On Thursday, 26 April 2018 at 23:26:30 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
I posit that redundancy is something programmers learn to
appreciate as they gain experience, and that eliminating
redundancy is something new programmers think is a new idea :-)
Not just 'new programmers', but even old programmers! (i.e. think
'Go'..)
How did they get 'Go'... so wrong?
Such 'smart' 'experienced' people .. came up with such an awful
language... I don't get it.
'For' is Go's 'while' - wtf!@!!!#!
There's no substituion for taste...some have it.. some don't.
'Experience' is irrelevant.