[quote user="Arnavion"]A while ago, I mentioned I'd ported a hobby project from CoffeeScript to Go.[/quote] Well there's your problem, you wanted to use Go. Go is a joke, a badly executed and unfunny joke, but a joke; why does anyone take it seriously? They are optimizing all the wrong things and missing the point. Its developed ...

[quote user="Ben L."]Here, let me rewrite your horrible code in valid Go syntax:[/quote] *Whoosh* (that was the sound of ben missing the fucking point!)

[quote user="Lorne Kates"]Or take the $5k, and send him a fake report card with a D- average. ...[/quote] I was going to say take them money and send him a high DPI, i.e. "good quality", but filled with F's

[quote user="morbiuswilters"]No, they aren't. Birds descended from dinosaurs. [/quote] There are species of birds alive today that were flying around along with the dinosaurs, they literally are dinosaurs; you have probably seen a dinosaur with your own eyes, and you probably have eaten (albeit one genetically modified via selective ...

[quote user="morbiuswilters"]but the days of universities turning out skilled CS grads are behind us. That's not to say that skilled people don't graduate from CS programs; they do[/quote] There is a theory that the number of good/excellent/whathaveyou CS graduates is more or less constant every year, but enrollemnet and ...

[quote user="Salamander"]I just read the effective go page, and I'm convinced that the whole thing was an april fools joke that got out of hand[/quote] so Go is basically a poorly executed INTERCAL? that explains alot. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTERCAL http://www.catb.org/~esr/intercal/

[quote user="error_NoError"]Excellent, I was already leaning towards C++/C#+.Net and Mono looks pretty tasty with its cross-platform support. I'm trying to avoid investing a lot of time learning the buzzword language of the year only to have nobody care about it when I finally become proficient in it. Can anyone recommend a decent ...

[quote user="Ben L."]I'm going to link to a FAQ entry that you are sure to ignore.[/quote] lol the faq has the same problem you have with not actually answering the question. The answer to whats the origin of the name is some gibberish about what would be a good name for a go debugger? the author of the FAQ seems to think Java is ...

[quote user="morbiuswilters"]They're actually reptiles that are distinct from lizards (and distinct from any currently-living known reptiles). I was just being a pedantic dickweed[/quote] Birds are Dinosaurs http://www.amnh.org/explore/science-topics/birds-are-dinosaurs

[quote user="blakeyrat"]This is a flat-out lie. Windows 7 doesn't behave that way.[/quote] Obvious troll is obvious.