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I think his obvious implication is that Go doesn't need map, filter and reduce because (if I may summarize) "line feed is just a single character". That's just
by user567 12y ago
I think his obvious implication is that Go doesn't need map, filter and reduce because (if I may summarize) "line feed is just a single character".
That's just really poor (and silly) reasoning honestly. A 12-yr old could look deeper. For instance:
-. Is 'writing' code all that matters?
-. Aren't there in fact 10s or 100s or 1000s more readers to code than writers (including the original author also as a reader)?
-. Do readers like to scroll between various blocks of logic and divine signal from noise by teaching their brain to ignore boilerplate?
-. And what if the brain at first sees something as boilerplate but only upon further examination finds a subtle difference in the pattern for this one rare instance?
-. And what if that happens when the programmer is investigating a long-standing bug that has just resulted in a great loss of human life (and will continue to do so)?
- user567 12y agoWhy the downvotes? Bigots?
- enneff 12y agoRob, myself, and others have written tomes on this, on Hacker News, golang-nuts, and elsewhere. If you're trying to have an argument with Rob (he's not reading this, btw) over some pithy statement he made in February, you're wasting your time.
- user567 12y agoYou've written tomes on how wasting vertical space and multiplying syntactic noise is a good idea? Even if so: ideas are not measured by the volume of noise you write in support of them.
- user567 12y agoYou've written tomes on how wasting vertical space and multiplying syntactic noise is a good idea? Even if so: ideas are not measured by the volume of noise you write in support of them.
- enneff 12y agoAt the risk of prolonging this insufferable "conversation": my point is that it has been discussed to death, and you're being down voted because nobody is interested in discussing it with you, or even hearing you discuss it.
- user567 12y agoIn that case, it's probably an extremely good sign that you've made a stupid decision in your language. Smart people are revolting and making noise. gofmt using tabs is another unbelievably stupid decision. I'm sure there was a good deal of talk around that one too. Also, not just one comment. That entire thread shows the pigheadedness of the Go way.
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