Reminds me of?

[Steve Teale]

To the D Faithful:

In recent postings, I have increasingly seen  references to the 'Select Few'.

This kind of reminds me of Iran, where you have 'The Guardian Council', and 'The Supreme Leader'.

Now admittedly, this may be an improvement on the C++ standards committee, but is it the right way to go. Is some form of democracy that bad?

If we are to have a 'Guardian Council' to protect us from heresy, then should it not immediately prohibit the heresy of two standard libraries?

Then maybe we could get to the point of having a nice clean Theocracy system where __the__ standard library could be controlled by the 'Select Few', but we could also have a mobile 'potential standard library' where D addicts could contribute freely to some version control system that could on a popular vote basis be easily rolled back (by the 'Select Few' of course)?

Forgive my cynicism, but I have spent most of my working life either trying to make some money myself, or working for companies that were trying to make some money. There has to be some direction, and I'm not seeing the leadership I'd like to anywhere in the D community at present.

Are there D enthusiasts out there who feel they could handle this task? If so, please nominate yourselves, and let's have a vote, then there would at least be some popular mandate to break out of the status quo.

Superdan - how about it?

Steve