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Attention, Spoiled Software Engineers: Take a Lesson from Google’s Programming Language

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Go is the premier general-purpose language of the new millennium .

It's not the best at any one thing, but nearly best at nearly everything.

Its creators hail from an era when programmers had smaller egos and fewer commercial ambitions.

There’s a lot of hatred, and self-hatred, to contend with.

Alan Turing’s paper that launched the field of computer science is less than a century old .

We live in a small window of time where pioneers are alive and professionally active, even into their eighties .

Go is a language created by people who had nothing left to prove.

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informal

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English

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48

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