I don't know I have met many a newbie from university who didn't know their way around the Java world but would happily work with Haskell because their advanced courses used it.
On Mon, 28 Aug 2017, 12:30 Wojciech S. Czarnecki <o...@fairbe.org> wrote: > On Sun, 27 Aug 2017 17:28:07 +0000 > Jesper Louis Andersen <jesper.louis.ander...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > The advantage of having the extra syntactic abstraction in a language is > > not something you would tend to dismiss too easily I think. While it > > filters away some contributors from the code base, it also, on the flip > > side, makes programmers work more efficiently. > > It filters out *all* contributors who are not in the 'more experienced' > set. > It allows that few who are already more experienced to *write* faster, but > every man-second gained at writing is then lost and negated just at > second read (i.e. peer review). Also, with 'feature rich' languages a > man-hour > gain for one experienced programmer easily becomes a whole-team-week > lost at first debug session. > > > However, I don't think the inspiration should be C#, Java or C++. I'd > > rather look toward > > Every one of us would rather look toward already internalized constructs > of former/first love. Go authors are good at fending us off that urges :) > > > The advantage of having the extra syntactic abstraction in a language is > > not something you would tend to dismiss too easily I think. > > On contrary I am happy to dismiss horrors of hours of digging in huge > pile of sources just to grasp how clever and experienced my predecessor > was. With go almost everything written by others is clear and in sight. > What is not right in sight is a single incantation of go doc away. > > -- > Wojciech S. Czarnecki > << ^oo^ >> OHIR-RIPE > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
