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"About the series - The Perspectives series is a collection of essays written by individuals from Sun Microsystems Laboratories. These essays express ideas and opinions held by the authors on subjects of general rather than technical interest."

Would someone know where I could find other essays from this collection?

I second that, awk's a very clean language to look at log files or data files and do quick analysis or clean up.

Definitely has a Lucida Grande feel to it, which, if I recall correctly, was one of the font on Plan9. The Go Mono isn't close to Lucida Grande Mono, but certainly looks like an interesting update.

About 8% of the world is color blind, so having standard positions on traffic light is indeed very important.

I am interested and curious. Could you give an example of something you were dissatisfied with, and at which you became great because of those books? Thanks.

It clarifies the fact that Go is successful for more reasons than just being pushed by Google. So it focuses the question to "what is it that people like about it". And then we can have a better conversation.

Swimming.

> Part of the goal was to make something fast that's both safer and easier than C.

Right, and also fast compilation.

I remember reading the goal was ~20% slower than C for overall performance.

True. But plaintext is almost a self documented format. The structure/format of an org more file is obvious just by looking at it really. Can't say the same about a binary file.

Interesting timing, there's a new Bourbaki volume coming out in a few weeks, the first one in decades: Topologie Algébrique, Chapitre 1 à 4.

So Kernighan uses the sam editor, classic.

Good comment by Gates. It's the difference between giving out of your excesses and giving out of your poverty.