Better docs for D (WIP)

Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Sun Jan 31 11:43:37 PST 2016


On 12/30/2015 08:32 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> It was rejected. Walter didn't see what the problem was and I was told
> to just write $(LT)span$(GT)foo$(LT)/span$(GT). Seriously.
>
[...]
>
> The idea (and working program) was rejected because the team felt a
> post-processor was the wrong way to do it.

That's been quite possibly THE biggest thorn in my side discouraging me 
from contributions. I've seen, and personally run into, plenty of cases 
where a non-existent ideal implementation becomes the mortal enemy of 
progress that already exists. I could ramble off a whole list of cases.

It's sooo much easier to just do my own thing and "get it done" than 
waste effort on politics and playing the "is this worthwhile?" game with 
people who prefer wasting their time defending stagnation over stepping 
back and allowing others to just get problems fixed, even if not in an 
perfectly ideal way.

I'll take a temporarily imperfect solution over vaporware ideals any day.



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