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Re:Rob Pike interview by 5cott0 on Thursday April 30, 2020 @01:47PM (#23033707)
> a language designed to be opaque to casual examination

Is this really the case? I thought the prevailing wisdom is that Go was designed to be as simple as possible so newbs can pick it up faster. I find Go to be quite easy to read and follow along with even though I've never written a line of it. Rust on the other hand...

Re:Rob Pike interview by zerpelin68 on Thursday April 30, 2020 @06:53PM (#23037187)
opaque to casual examination means that you simply cannot read the code. You would think that a statically compiled binary blob wouldn't be handled as if it was a perl script, but it is.
Re:Rob Pike interview by theshrike79 on Friday May 01, 2020 @04:31AM (#23040165)
And Perl isn't opaque to casual examination? :D