The practice of programming, 18 years later
People like Pike and Kernighan is the reason I've invested so much of my time in learning Go lately. To some this may seem completely irrational, because you should pick a language based on its merits (e.g. does it support generics, etc), but for me, the books they authored and the software they wrote (e.g. Ken Thompson's contribution to what we now know as unix) says a lot more than a seemingly objective review based on language features. I guess time will show whether I'm right.