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		ab5tract on May 11, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Go Lang: Comments Are Not Directives "Go often prefers pain for the programmer for the compiler developer's life being simpler by about 5 minutes." Interesting contrast to the philosophy of Perl 6: 'torture the implementor on behalf of the user'.

catwell on May 17, 2015 [–]

This is exactly the "Worse is Better" debate. We know which horse won last time, I would bet on the same one this time too.

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