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>Brian Kernighan gave a talk on the readability of code ... I am aware he's one of the Go designers

I don't think so.

Not according to Wikipedia at least. First sentence:

>Go is a statically typed, compiled high-level programming language designed at Google[12] by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson.[4]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(programming_language)

Maybe you confused Brian Kernighan with Ken Thompson.

I think I have done that in the past myself. He (Ken Thompson) also worked a lot on Unix; maybe that is why the confusion.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix

Or maybe the confusion is because Kernighan was a co-author of The Go Programming Language book.



Not confusion with Ken Thompson; probably the book.




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