stability

[Lars Ivar Igesund]

Janice Caron wrote:

> On 24/02/2008, Derek Parnell <derek at psych.ward> wrote:
>>  Have you actually thought that through? Is each person really expected
>>  to ask Walter ad hoc questions about D's design and expect Walter to
>>  reply to each one with the answer?
> 
> I don't expect the creator of any project to answer individual emails,
> but they can, and do, set up newsgroups, forums and mailing lists, of
> which this is one example, as well as official documentation. That
> seems more than adequate to me.
> 
> It seems to me that the whole basis for that question, and indeed,
> this entire thread, is the underlying assumption that we don't trust
> Walter with his own creation. I do.
> 
> I believe that the creative process is the same, whether one is
> writing a song, a book, or a programming language; whether one is
> making a movie or a compiler. And these things are /always/ better
> when designed by a single person with a vision than by a committee.
> Therefore, I insist that D is better precisely /because/ Walter has
> his creative freedom.

D as a language is quite possibly better due to this, but the compiler
situation is definately worse than it could be because of the lack of a
proper spec.

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