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eru
82 days ago
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Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)
> In practice what I see fail most often is not premature optimization but premature abstraction.
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https://people.mpi-sws.org/~dreyer/tor/papers/wadler.pdf
tasuki
82 days ago
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Philip Wadler gave us a sound type system. Rob Pike gave us a programming language for stupid people. Each contributed in their own way, towards different goals.
eru
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Interestingly, Philip Wadler also worked on the generics in Go, I think?
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Compare and contrast https://people.mpi-sws.org/~dreyer/tor/papers/wadler.pdf