[OT] Go officially won't get generics

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On Friday, 9 May 2014 at 07:38:46 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> I had the opportunity to meet Wirth at CERN, when he and a few 
> ETHZ members took part on the Oberon Day, back in 2004.
>
> He is really great guy, but he could not understand why Oberon 
> was being ignored in the industry. As he expected the desire 
> for quality would drive developers to it.

 From Wirth published books and known projects I have an 
impression that he is a brilliant scientist who has an extremely 
basic understanding of what engineers need. His languages are all 
about proposing academical solutions to practical problems.