[9rx]

> Stop excusing them

What is there to excuse? Your quote confirms that they simply don't know what they're doing as was already established. Not that anyone should expect them to. They're just regular average humans, same as every other random Joe you encounter while walking down the street, who all equally have their own failings and shortcomings. Why HN is constantly trying to put these particular people on a pedestal, I'll never know. Jealously that regular bumbling idiots just like them accidentally stumbled into creating something popular (for some definition of popular), perhaps?

[pjmlp]

They certainly knew what they were doing.

The first step to acknowledge not being great language designers is to actually be humble to learn from the work of others.

Not assert to all "we know better", and then repeatly having to backpedals on such assertions.

[9rx]

> They certainly knew what they were doing.

Based on what? Sure, the one guy managed to hack up the first version of C, but it took a complete rewrite and some major changes to become what we would actually recognize as C. Not exactly indicative of someone who knows what he is doing. And everything in Go was copied straight from Winterbottom's work.