Standardization of D

[Bruce Adams]

On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:22:30 -0000, Jason House  
<jason.james.house at gmail.com> wrote:

> Don Clugston Wrote:
>> Right now, D2 is not standard even in that sense -- Walter hasn't  
>> reached a
>> consensus with himself. <g>
>> Look how 'const' has changed over the past ten releases.
>> So to answer the original post -- I expect at least another year of  
>> releases
>> before Walter will say that the language design is essentially complete.
>
> Maybe then it'll be time for D3 ;)

Design by comittee is reknowned for its speed even when there is concensus.
Look at how long it took to get ISO C++ and they daren't put a definite  
year
to C++0x. It was probably a little optimistic putting a 0 there.

If I may quote the fictional genius Prof. Adonis Cnut

Dr Hannah Awkward: "The human genome project took over a decade of work by  
hundreds
of scientists around the world".

Prof Adonis Cnut: "but I was working on my own so it was much quicker"