D : Not for me anymore

[Walter Bright]

Karen Lanrap wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
> 
>> Design/code/design/code... iteratively is the real process.
>> There's a good reason for that - too often when implementing a
>> design we discover that the design won't work or could at least
>> be improved. 
> 
> Who is 'we' in this case?

Just about every software project outside of avionics software.

> Following your statement a very tiny set of coworkers might avoid 
> desaster.
> 
> But your habits of evolving the D programming language make it hard 
> to believe that under such management principles a project of about 
> 1000 man years would come to success.

The only computer language I know of that was design then build was Ada. 
And that was a massive failure - Ada was not accepted until the design 
evolved quite a bit from that first mil spec.