You mean to say that you didn't think something was off about Gabe Newell saying "... you slobbering shit-wizards ..." in an apparently official communication? :-)
It always amazes me when people try to somehow empirically prove that one programming language is better than another. Sure, it's an interesting question to consider as a thought-exercise, but is there really anything valuable to be gained from expanding on this any further than that?
I've always though that, other than objective measurements of binary code performance, whether or not you think a programming language is good is almost entirely determined by its syntax and feature set. I feel no need to go around the internet all day proclaiming my programming language of choice to be the best and/or others to be inferior.
This reminds me of that link I saw on here a while ago titled "Why Go? Use Racket!". Personally, my answer would be: because I find 9000 brackets in a simple program to be poorly readable. However, I respect anyone who disagrees and thinks the opposite. If it allows them to make great software and have fun doing it: by all means go for it!
You apparently thought the write-up was somehow overly condescending to C++ programmers (I assume), while I personally thought it was the complete opposite.
That tone is implied because that's what they thought when they designed the language. He specifically says that exact thing... They were trying to make development of the kind of projects C++ was used for easier and as such it was a reasonable assumption that they would draw users of C++ to Go. He also says it didn't really end up that way and explains why.
