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		asdasf on July 23, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Impressions of Go >Also, are you really going to call-out Rob Pike and Russ Cox on whether or not they truly understand Functional Programming like you do? Appeal to authority really only works if the people you mention are authorities. On what basis would any reasonable person conclude that either of the people you mentioned are authorities on functional programming? Have either of them even been willing to respond to the constantly referenced parametric polymorphism paper from the 1970s yet?

acuozzo on July 23, 2013 [–]

> Appeal to authority really only works if the people you mention are authorities.

Excellent point. I agree.

However, my entire argument wasn't based on an appeal to authority. I included it as a snarky invitation to "lay it on the table".

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