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extempore on Jan 25, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Making the move from Scala to Go

I missed a couple which didn't mention go:

- Rob Pike is like Henry Ford, except when people said “faster horses” he said “that is the best idea I’ve ever heard.”

- Rob Pike is the Antonin Scalia of programming language design - an Originalist. Except 1970s not 1770s.

easuter on Jan 26, 2017 [–]

Enjoy your horse then; I'll just speed off into the sunset with the latest model Generics Motors has to offer. :)

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