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OSCON 2010: Rob Pike, "Public Static Void"
O'Reilly
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.
HN uses it as a concise statement of the thinking behind Go's design.
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