Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it's very useful. Rob Pike More Quotes by Rob Pike More Quotes From Rob Pike Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX. The browsers are written in C. The UNIX kernel - that pretty much the entire Internet runs on - is written in C. Rob Pike prettyeverythingthingsinternet Go is an attempt to combine the safety and performance of statically typed languages with the convenience and fun of dynamically typed interpretative languages. Rob Pike performancegosafetyfun The process of software development doesn't feel any better than it did a generation ago. Rob Pike generationfeelbetterprocess Dynamic typing is not necessarily good. You get static errors at run time, which you really should be able to catch at compile time. Rob Pike goodrunyoutime When Steve Jobs died last week, there was a huge outcry, and that was very moving and justified. Rob Pike steve-jobslastweekmoving To write a kernel without a data structure and have it be as consistent and graceful as UNIX would have been a much, much harder challenge. Rob Pike gracefulchallengewithoutdata You have to make a decision whether it's a new product or you integrate it with an existing product. It takes time to work these things out. Rob Pike youdecisionworktime We're systems software people ourselves. We wanted a language to make our lives better. Rob Pike bettersoftwarelanguagepeople We don't believe we've solved the multicore-programming problem. But we think we've built an environment in which a certain class of problems can take advantage of the multicore architecture. Rob Pike problemsarchitectureproblembelieve
