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		pjmlp on May 2, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Java is the COBOL of my generation and Go is its s... Actually I think that given that they gave birth to one of the most unsafe languages on the planet, and publicly ranted against OO and FP languages during their career, they have choosen to ignore them as a political decision.

kyrra on May 2, 2014 [–]

What makes it unsafe? The worst you can do is cause your program to panic (which you can recover).

iv_08 on May 2, 2014 | [–]

He's talking about C, not Go. Because Ken Thompson created B, the precursor of C.

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