All this talk about finalising D2 makes me worried

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Bill Baxter<wbaxter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Seems to me like popularity of languages tends to precede detailed
> specifications generally.
> Having a 100% complete spec has merits I'm sure but it doesn't really
> correlate much with language adoption as far as I can tell.  Having a
> language and tool chain that work well and make life easy for
> programmers seems to have much more importance.  Is this incorrect
> from what you've seen?

It's not incorrect.  I'm just saying that rigorously specifying the
language can certainly go a long way to making a solid compiler, and
therefore a better toolchain.