Why we chose not to use D for our Linux project

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Reply to Dave,

> it's easy to spend too much time on the
> initial design stage, IMHO. I've seen too many projects that were
> over-designed prior to any coding that have failed miserably

I think the important thing is to keep in mind what the design gives you 
and what it costs you.

The design is a tool for making better software. It lets you catch some design 
flaws earlier and fix them when it's cheaper. But it can be a costly way 
to find types of bugs. So when the cost savings of finding the bug that way 
exceeds the cost savings of fixing it later, just implement the sucker.

I suspect that's why formal design is more common in airplanes and space 
probes, finding a bug in flight control code by waiting for the plain to 
crash (pun) is kind of expensive.