Making the move from Scala to Go

Re:Making the move from Scala to Go by michaelchisari on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @09:21PM (#13477875)

I don't agree that all languages are created equal in this regard. I think that there are cultural norms and expectations that come with certain languages that make them more or less susceptible to "cleverness."

For instance, python has never had the problems that ruby or perl had.

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Re:Making the move from Scala to Go by stcredzero on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @09:28PM (#13477911)

I don't agree that all languages are created equal in this regard.

I never said that. I'm only asserting that no language is completely immune, because hubristic cleverness is intermediate to stupidity and genius.

I think that there are cultural norms and expectations that come with certain languages that make them more or less susceptible to "cleverness."

Cultural norms can indeed help or hurt.

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Re:Making the move from Scala to Go by atilaneves on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @06:05AM (#13480413)

I've seen Ruby-like Python. Just because Ruby makes it easier to do metaprogramming doesn't mean you can't do it in Python.

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Re:Making the move from Scala to Go by michaelchisari on Thursday January 26, 2017 @01:47PM (#13494068)

Of course it's not impossible.

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