in fairness to him good syntax highlighting wasn't invented until people discovered javascript was actually useful some time in 2011, four years later.
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he also got pretty much unanimously eviscerated by his contemporaries, which makes rob pike look even dumber in hindsight
yeah, but with 20 years of studies on coder productivity, it's so much funnier
Oh, I remember when this was posted.
My friends and I thought it was funny he was trying to stir up such an ancient and settled debate at the time.
Yeah, I can't believe that the psychology of programming paper on the topic was only published in 2015.
It felt like that should have been done back in the 80s or 90s.
I'm willing to bet it was, but by like, consultancies doing time motion studies so it's buried in a sidenote somewhere