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by bad_user 4258 days ago
People claimed that for every programming language in history that was a complete fuck-up, whereas languages with academic/theoretical underpinnings are still alive and relevant.

The true tragedy of our industry are not the technologies we use. The tragedy is that we do not learn from prior mistakes - I was in school and into programming in the nineties and in 20 years things changed, but not that much - people are still debating basically Basic vs Pascal vs C and sometimes it feels like freaking groundhog day, the movie.

(N.B. I'm not criticizing Go here)