Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote "The Last Thing D Needs"

Chris Nicholson-Sauls via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Tue May 27 14:16:32 PDT 2014


On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 20:11:13 UTC, w0rp wrote:
> On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 19:43:57 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
> wrote:
>> On Tue, 27 May 2014 14:57:46 -0400, w0rp <devw0rp at gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> That was brilliant. I think Scott made two very good points. 
>>> D needs people like himself to educate others
>>
>> I think you misunderstood that point ;) He was saying to make 
>> D so that we DON'T need specialists like himself that can make 
>> a career out of explaining the strange quirks of D, mostly by 
>> not having those quirks in the first place.
>>
>> -Steve
>
> Oh, I see what he's saying now. The *last* thing. That's... 
> confusing use of English. It makes more sense with respect to 
> his other comment, though.

Sometimes I think English could use a guy like him.


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