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I don’t see any of them play an if err != nil { return err } so they can’t be all that smart now, can they

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9 points

the world would’ve been a better place if pike never got goog to greenlight his third attempt at neophp

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He also did sawzall, but thankfully that didn’t get widely adopted

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circa '06 my then-boss wanted me to “implement sawzall for mailserver logs”

(I was extremely green at the time and I’ve since wondered whether that was one of my first gartner quadrant moments)

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Bit of a wash, tbh: I like that the “but simplicity!” computer touchers now write their trash code in a memory-safe language; it sure reduces the amount of extremely preventable issues by introducing some other extremely preventable issues.

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10 points

So does Java. /me runs

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