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Re:Borgo Programming Language by riwsky on Friday November 29, 2024 @08:36PM (#42278699)
Are we just ignoring when they invited Philip “Featherweight Java” Wadler to help them design Go generics? https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.11710

Or that Robert Griesemer literally is a language PhD, whose thesis was supervised by a little fellow by the name of “Niklaus Wirth”?

https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/handle/20.500.11850/...

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Re:Borgo Programming Language by pjmlp on Saturday November 30, 2024 @04:13AM (#42280524)
No, but that isn't what Rob Pike meant, that was the Go design team accepting they alone weren't capable to implement generics in Go, without help from those PhD folks.
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