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> opinionated (in the "users of this language are stupid" direction) Pike, et. al. seem to be

Such a strong statement, wrapped in quotes to make it seem that this is Pike's literal words, should really be substantiated with a reference. Otherwise you're putting words in Pike's mouth that he never said.

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“The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language but we want to use them to build good software. So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt.” – Rob Pike

You have supported what I said; they were not his literal words.

Where does he say "users of this language are stupid".

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