Give me a break

[Lars T. Kyllingstad]

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> With four or five people having voiced concerns over the future of D
> in the past week or so, what's the busiest discussion?
> 
> int.nan, of course.
> 
> Come on.  Get with the program.  Enough already with the bikeshed
> bullshit.  There are far more important issues at hand.


Although I definitely feel your pain, I am not worried about the impact 
these kinds of discussions will have on D development. If Walter & co. 
were among the most active participants, I would be deeply worried 
indeed, but luckily they aren't. Hopefully they spend their time on more 
important stuff.

Do you know what worries me, though? The fact that whenever a potential 
D user comes to digitalmars.com/d and clicks "Forum" he/she sees two 
things: Bikeshed stuff or "D is doomed".

Walter: Please, please, please direct new users towards D.learn instead 
of this group!

I'm starting to think one should be required pass some D programming 
test to be able to acess this NG, to sift out those who are new enough 
to potentially be scared off. Instead of having to read distorted text 
in a CAPTCHA, one would have to decipher a piece of complex template 
code or something.

-Lars