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OSCON 2010: Rob Pike, "Public Static Void"

O'Reilly · 119.4K views · 2010-07-22 · 12:31

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A 13-minute OSCON 2010 talk in which Rob Pike argues about what is wrong with mainstream languages like C++, Java and C#, and presents Go as a response. He discusses verbosity and what lightness means in a language.

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Recommended by 3 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2012–2023

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C, C++, Rust, Go & systems languagesProgramming language design
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mtrn · 2015-06 · Recommendation

> I wonder what rob pike has to say about OOP or java, I wish I could listen to it. 12 minutes where Pike talks about a few things, that seem to be wrong in our software world: [VIDEO]

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dottrap · 2014-06 · Recommendation

"Public Static Void" Rob Pike (Bell Labs, Plan 9, Google Go) gave this short speech at OSCON 2010 about what's wrong with programming languages, their thinking, and their recent direction, with a lot of focus on C++/Java/C#, and how Go was a response to that. [VIDEO] Apple Swift seems to share much of the thinking, and the huge enthusiasm for Swift this week suggests developers seem to at least subconsciously recognize there is a problem.

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james4k · 2012-11 · Recommendation

>PHP is horribly inconsistent, breaks all the rules about programming language design, and is infuriating. Some say that rules are made to be broken. In the context of Go, Rob Pike argues exactly that in this short talk on why they made Go: [VIDEO]

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