[Lewisham]

Bad programmers are always going to be bad programmers, no matter what their age. Bad programmers are inflexible and unadaptable; unable to keep up with new languages or idioms. Ken Thompson is about as old school as they come and he wrote much of Go.

[airless_bar]

I think dismissing anything invented after 1960/not invented at Google counts as "inflexible and unadaptable; unable to keep up with new languages or idioms".

[weberc2]

Many folks come to Go from "modern" languages, Python and Java in particular. I don't think this can be considered "dismissing".