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programming languages influence how you think about programming to such a degree that it's difficult to reason objectively about them.

it's rare for me to watch long videos, because they are information-poor for the time investment, but i watched rob pike talk for an hour about go this evening. a lot of it is really interesting, but a lot of things about the syntax made me think: ow, that's going to be painful for me if it becomes successful.

rob's talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKnDgT73v8s



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