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0 pointsdanellis5y ago0 comments

The Go community had to do the same. Go. A language created by a company that makes a well known search engine.

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But by staff who has worked on Plan 9, right?

Those people made it so that one-letter identifier names and junk like ‘fmt’ and ‘Fprintln(w)’ is again okay. So the unusable name fits the spirit quite well.

GauntletWizard5y ago

Sometimes obscurity, as well as tweaking your nose at convention, is a feature.

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