Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 06/01/2010 03:37 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
bearophile wrote:
Walter Bright:
C got it right and it doesn't need fixing.
I have never programmed in Go, but keep in mind that Go designers are
expert
language designers and programmers. They aren't stupid people.
Even experts make mistakes.
With all due respect, I don't think Go's designers are expert language
designers. (Let me haste to add that I don't consider myself a language
designer, and much less an expert one.)
Back to my hackneyed experience at Boeing designing airplanes - even Boeing did
not rely on experts not making mistakes. The design process involved independent
groups reviewing the designs, and nobody's design was taken for granted.
Everything had to be justified with facts, never "trust me, I'm an expert."
