# On Rob Pike and Go

**URL:** https://clojureverse.org/t/on-rob-pike-and-go/6485
**Category:** Watercooler
**Created:** [September 3, 2020, 8:06am UTC](https://clojureverse.org/t/on-rob-pike-and-go/6485 "2020-09-03T08:06:51Z")
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### Author: ![seancorfield](https://clojureverse.org/user_avatar/clojureverse.org/seancorfield/32/195_2.png) [@seancorfield](https://clojureverse.org/u/seancorfield)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2020, 2:13am UTC](https://clojureverse.org/t/on-rob-pike-and-go/6485/9 "2020-09-07T02:13:18Z")

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I haven’t looked at Elixir because I understand the syntax is basically Ruby? And I really don’t like Ruby (I was a community teaching assistant on the Washington University “Programming Languages” course for several years and it uses Ruby as one of the three teaching languages – the others are Standard ML and Racket).

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