Why we chose not to use D for our Linux project

Chris R. Miller lordSaurontheGreat at gmail.com
Tue May 20 18:49:13 PDT 2008


BCS wrote:
> Reply to Clay,
> 
>> Sorry, but I have to say that you are not getting great advice. The
>> design stage is the most important stage in the life of a program. Get
>> that wrong and you can write all the code you want, and it will all be
>> wrong.
>>
> 
> That said, you have given nothing to the end user until you start 
> writhing code. So design the code and then and then get on to writhing 
> it. I haven't seen it my self but I rather suspect that projects have 
> failed because they didn't want to be done designing it.

Yes, that's more or less his point.  You can always rewrite a bad 
system, or anything else.  Whatever you call it, you can always polish 
the turd later, but getting something - anything - would be an imperative.

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