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Re:Ask HN: What programming language do we use if IQ of whol... by Smaug123 on Thursday November 16, 2023 @10:26AM (#38290695)
Inoffensive. One of the explicit Golang design criteria, as espoused by Rob Pike, was to be usable by "Googlers, fresh out of school, who probably learned some Java/C/C++/Python". The language would presumably look very different if it had been designed for more powerful users.
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Re:Ask HN: What programming language do we use if IQ of whol... by JohnFen on Thursday November 16, 2023 @11:19AM (#38291440)
Rob Pike wasn't talking about how smart the programmers are, though. He was talking about how knowledgeable and/or experienced they are.
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Re:Ask HN: What programming language do we use if IQ of whol... by Smaug123 on Thursday November 16, 2023 @11:38AM (#38291718)
They trade off against each other. A language designed for people who can compose primitives, for example, can be used well either by people who have seen all the combinations of primitives before, or by people who can quickly grasp the implications of a new primitive with respect to the others.
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