I thought the author was Brian Kernighan?
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On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 12:53 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
wrote:

> well, at least dennis wrote "why pascal is not my favorite programming
> language".
>
> from go build
>
>         ./cat.go:36: cannot use data (type [8192]byte) as type []byte in
> argument to cat
>
> what?  perhaps i'm missing something about the language, but it sure seems
> ironic.
>
> - erik
>
>