Re:Go 1.8 Release Notes
by kazinator on Friday February 17, 2017 @12:33PM
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Indeed, the whole "use only what you think is good" from a programming language is a fallacious argument. Or, at least, it only applies to the lone wolf developer who writes everything by him/herself.
Knuth fell into making this mistake in the 1993 Computer Literacy Bookshops interview, in which he responded thus on the topic of C:
DK: I think C has a lot of features that are very important. The way C handles pointers, for example, was a brilliant innovation; it solved a lot of problems that we had before in data structuring and made the programs look good afterwards. C isn't the perfect language, no language is, but I think it has a lot of virtues, and you can avoid the parts you don't like.
Yes, you can avoid the parts you don't like, if you're like Knuth, working on one program by yourself.
Knuth fell into making this mistake in the 1993 Computer Literacy Bookshops interview, in which he responded thus on the topic of C:
DK: I think C has a lot of features that are very important. The way C handles pointers, for example, was a brilliant innovation; it solved a lot of problems that we had before in data structuring and made the programs look good afterwards. C isn't the perfect language, no language is, but I think it has a lot of virtues, and you can avoid the parts you don't like.
Yes, you can avoid the parts you don't like, if you're like Knuth, working on one program by yourself.