Re:Channels Are Not Enough
by notduncansmith on Monday September 15, 2014 @02:11AM
(#8317503)
"My editor makes it really easy to do this terrible thing, so it's okay!"
I'm sorry, I quite enjoy many aspects of Go - but the argument that committing one of the cardinal sins of programming is okay because your editor makes it easy is worse than the actual language shortcoming itself.
Re:Channels Are Not Enough
by sagichmal on Monday September 15, 2014 @08:51AM
(#8318461)
Code duplication is not a cardinal sin of programming. In fact, the attitude that it _is_ has probably done more harm to [modern] programming than duplication ever did :)
I'm sorry, I quite enjoy many aspects of Go - but the argument that committing one of the cardinal sins of programming is okay because your editor makes it easy is worse than the actual language shortcoming itself.