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Re:What are the most polarizing programming languages? by kibwen on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @04:05PM (#10509760) 

  > Pike
I think you're confusing Rob Pike with Dennis Ritchie. :) Pike has designed many languages, but C was not among them. I say this especially because Dennis Ritchie Day was just last week: http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/10/dennis-ritchie-day.html
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Re:What are the most polarizing programming languages? by SixSigma on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @05:17PM (#10510211)
No I'm not. Pike worked at developing the C language, especially on Plan 9. Plan 9 C has a few unique features added by Pike when Ritchie was his team leader at the labs and Stroustrup was there developing C++. Pike is not a fan of C++, E.g. "object oriented design the is Roman Numerals of computing"
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