OT: Re: One document about Go

[BCS]

Hello Bane,

> BCS Wrote:
> 
>> Hello Walter,
>> 
>>> bearophile wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Walter Bright:
>>>> 
>>>>> C got it right and it doesn't need fixing.
>>>>> 
>>>> I have never programmed in Go, but keep in mind that Go designers
>>>> are expert language designers and programmers. They aren't stupid
>>>> people.
>>>> 
>>> Even experts make mistakes.
>>> 
> Even Forest Gump knows 'stupid is who stupid does'.
> 
>> For that matter, how many expert language designers are there in the
>> world? To make that have an answer, I've heard it said that to be an
>> expert you need to have done something consistently (like as a part
>> time job or more) for about 10 years. So Walter's and expert compiler
>> writer and might be an expert language designers sometime next year
>> (assuming IIRC he started designing D in '01).
>> 
> Does this makes me expert for beer consumption ? It was a full time
> job for me, often during weekend days?

If you did it more than about 20 hr a week, I'd say you may well be.

> Does 10 years of banging your
> fingers with hammer makes you expert carpenter ?

No but it could make you an expert at banging your fingers with hammer

> 
> I don't think here on Walther, but on that hilarious definition of
> 'expert'.
> 

Keep in mind that it's not a definition, but a minimum requirement.

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