The Importance of Having a Large Group

When you have a large enough group, instead of having it be like three people where you all have to sort of keep talking and working with each other, they start to like segment into two opposing factions. I think that's the really the only way to scale because you can't scale a benevolent dictator very well. Go was designed by three dudes in a room: Robert Thompson, Ken Thompson and Rob Hancocks. There's this one dude who has an ivory tower written on his shirt and he says the word hulking - which is kind of what Go is. They really sit there and write their own language but also use some words from others' languages as references. This is kind

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