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Rule 1. You can't tell where a program is going to spend its time. Bottlenecks occur in surprising places, so don't try to second guess and put in a speed hack until you've proven that's where the bottleneck is -- Rob Pike
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If POSIX threads are a good thing, perhaps I don't want to know what they're better than. -- Rob Pike
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Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming. -- Rob Pike
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Web servers are written in C, and if they're not, they're written in Java or C++, which are C derivatives, or Python or Ruby, which are implemented in C. -- Rob Pike
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When there is no type hierarchy you don't have to manage the type hierarchy. -- Rob Pike
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When Steve Jobs died last week, there was a huge outcry, and that was very moving and justified. -- Rob Pike
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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
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Productivity is most important by engineering management rules, but enjoyment is most important for engineers. One stems from the other. -- Rob Pike
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Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy. -- Rob Pike
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There's no such thing as a simple cache bug. -- Rob Pike
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Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it's very useful. -- Rob Pike
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Procedure names should reflect what they do; function names should reflect what they return -- Rob Pike
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A smart terminal is not a smartass terminal, but rather a terminal you can educate. -- Rob Pike
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The process of software development doesn't feel any better than it did a generation ago. -- Rob Pike
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Languages that try to disallow idiocy become themselves idiotic. -- Rob Pike
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There's nothing in computing that can't be broken by another level of indirection. -- Rob Pike
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Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad. -- Rob Pike
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Narrowness of experience leads to narrowness of imagination -- Rob Pike
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Sockets are the X windows of IO interfaces. -- Rob Pike
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Caches aren't architecture, they're just optimization. -- Rob Pike
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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
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Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's hard to fix. -- Rob Pike
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Eventually, I decided that thinking was not getting me very far and it was time to try building. -- Rob Pike
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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
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Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing. -- Rob Pike
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We're systems software people ourselves. We wanted a language to make our lives better. -- Rob Pike
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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
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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
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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