Hattingh Pretorius

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Lieutenant General Hattingh Pretorius SD SM MMM (1942–2008) was a South African military commander, who held the post of Chief of the South African Army November 1, 1993 – December 31, 1994.[2]

Awards and Decorations
gollark: I mean, it's better than C and stuff, and I wouldn't mind writing simple apps in it.
gollark: Speaking specifically about the error handling, it may be "simple", but it's only "simple" in the sense of "the compiler writers do less work". It's very easy to mess it up by forgetting the useless boilerplate line somewhere, or something like that.
gollark: Speaking more generally than the type system, Go is just really... anti-abstraction... with, well, the gimped type system, lack of much metaprogramming support, and weird special cases, and poor error handling.
gollark: - They may be working on them, but they initially claimed that they weren't necessary and they don't exist now. Also, I don't trust them to not do them wrong.- Ooookay then- Well, generics, for one: they *kind of exist* in that you can have generic maps, channels, slices, and arrays, but not anything else. Also this (https://fasterthanli.me/blog/2020/i-want-off-mr-golangs-wild-ride/), which is mostly about the file handling not being good since it tries to map on concepts which don't fit. Also channels having weird special syntax. Also `for` and `range` and `new` and `make` basically just being magic stuff which do whatever the compiler writers wanted with no consistency- see above- Because there's no generic number/comparable thing type. You would need to use `interface{}` or write a new function (with identical code) for every type you wanted to compare- You can change a signature somewhere and won't be alerted, but something else will break because the interface is no longer implemented- They are byte sequences. https://blog.golang.org/strings.- It's not. You need to put `if err != nil { return err }` everywhere.
gollark: Oh, and the error handling is terrible and it's kind of the type system's fault.

See also

References
  1. ftp://ftp.cs.wits.ac.za/pub/general/info/wm.a-z.txt%5B%5D
  2. "Fact file: Chiefs of the SA Army". defenceweb.co.za. DefenceWeb. 10 November 2008. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
Military offices
Preceded by
Georg Meiring		 Chief of the South African Army
1 November 1993 – 31 December 1994		 Succeeded by
Reginald Otto


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