Collection of quotes from Q&A with Brian Kernighan

Took some notes at his Q&A session @ Paperless Post Tech Talks tonight:

"There are more programming languages than we need. It would have been nice to have some consolidation."

"I think GO is excellent for concurrency. Lightweight channel mechanism makes it easy to share data between channels."

"Traversed Google's source tree (over NFS) w/ Python. Rewrote it in GO and it ran about 1/3 faster."

"If ‘what you see is what you get'; you might miss some of the critical information that you can’t see."

"Take home tests make a bit more sense. The question is, who grades those things? Are they qualified?"

"Writing code as tests is cruel. Time limits are unfair. You want to encourage people to think before they write code.”

"Mixed feelings on CS programs @ public schools. Who is teaching them? Are they qualified? What do we give up?"

"Programming languages tend not to die; the better question is, how we do we kill them off?"