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A comment on Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming. Parent comment

Re:Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming by Intermernet on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @07:30AM (#47424320)
Hang on, they mostly agree with each other. I've spoken to Rob Pike a few times and I never heard him call out Perlis as being wrong. On this particular point, Perlis and Pike are both extending an existing idea put forward by Fred Brooks.
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Re:Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming by mosura on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @07:43AM (#47424444)
Perlis absolutely is not saying the same thing, and as the commenter notes the functional community interpret it in a particularly extreme way.

I would guess Pike is simply wise enough not to get involved in such arguments.

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