When will D1 be finished?

[Walter Bright]

Georg Wrede wrote:
> That day, there will not be a single person on Earth who knows such 
> changes. Just like when we started on D2, nobody could have had any 
> notion of how D2 looks today. And we still have an unpredictable amount 
> of changes ahead of us in D2. For example, who can predict if Andrei or 
> somebody else writes a post here that turns half of D2 on its head, and 
> then we postpone everything to get that done. It's happened before, you 
> know.

I don't know of any language revision project that wound up where they 
said they were going at the outset.