Any idea when the 1.0 spec will be out?

[Stewart Gordon]

sailormoontw wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> I have read the Sinbad forum, which it's a Ogre3D in D. The author 
> thinks with no 1.0 spec, it discourages them from making such a 
> project. Ogre3D is nice and currently is one of good free DirectX 
> wrappers. If Ogre3D can have the D version. I think it's a nice thing 
> to the D community.

If you want to write a D version of Ogre3D, then I for one am not going
to stop you.

> And...I am just curious, after 5 years, when will the 1.0 of D be 
> out??

I think we should cross this bridge when we get to it.

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/35929.html

> Squirrel is a 2 years old language, and it already hits 2.1. And we 
> remember Perl, Perl has their spec fixed fast in earlier version 
> while Perl 6 is a bit slow.

It's not just age.

- How complex is the product?
- How many people have control over the specification?
- How many people have control over the reference implementation?
- How many hours a week are these people working on it?
- Does the version numbering system make sense when compared with ours?

> I am not sure what is left in the version 1.0, but like an ordinary 
> project it should have some timeline, or something left to do.
<snip>

Lots of things left to do if you haven't noticed.

Stewart.