Standardization of D

[Leandro Lucarella]

Bruce Adams, el  1 de febrero a las 19:00 me escribiste:
> 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.

You can have consensus in other languages that are not ISO Standard, even
when they have their BDFL is there a lot more discussion and a more formal
process, which means predictability.

And yes, I'm talking about Python as an example :)

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