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> In practice what I see fail most often is not premature optimization but premature abstraction.

Compare and contrast https://people.mpi-sws.org/~dreyer/tor/papers/wadler.pdf



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.


Interestingly, Philip Wadler also worked on the generics in Go, I think?




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