Google's Go

Daniel Keep daniel.keep.lists at gmail.com
Sun Jan 24 01:08:45 PST 2010



Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Meh. It's all so subjective, calling some language design "a hack" is
> nonfalsifiable. That reminds me of some of the Walter/Bartosz/me
> discussions. The first person to call something a hack usually won any
> argument because there was no way to counter that label sensibly.
> Prepend "terrible" and we have a winner.
> 
> 
> Andrei

The solution is obvious:

"The use of 'hack' or 'terrible hack' to describe something is a
terrible hack."

That'll either end the argument or cause everyone to stackfault.



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