All the folks from the UNIX tradition really are/were. MIT and Bell Labs were just amazing.
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BonkTheAnnoyed@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
R Pike is legend. His videos on concurrent programming remain reference level excellence years after publication. Just a great teacher as well as brilliant theoretical programmer.
slappyfuck@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
I’ve read The Practice of Programming.more times than I care to remember, so simple, so useful.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I haven’t always been a fan of Go. It launched with some iffy design decisions that have since been patched, either by the project maintainers or the community. It’s a much better experience now, which suggests that maybe there’s some long-range vision at work that I wasn’t privy to.
That said, Pike clearly has a lot of good ideas and I’m glad Google funded him to bring those to light.
I’ll also say that after finally wrapping my head around Python and JavaScript async/await, I actually much prefer the Goroutine model for concurrency. I got to those languages after surviving C++, and believe me when I say that it’s a bad time when your software develops a bad case of warts. Better to not contract them in the first place.