About Andrei's interview, part 3 (on bearophile)

[Bruno Medeiros]

On 27/08/2010 03:01, Gareth Charnock wrote:
> On 26/08/10 07:57, Don wrote:
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>> bearophile wrote:
>>>> This is why I don't like a lot the current work done for the 64 bit
>>>> implementation.
>>>
>>> A lot of groups cannot consider D unless it supports 64 bit compilation.
>>>
>>>
>>>> D2 has some design problems (I don't call them 'enhancement
>>>> requests') that if you want to fix may require to break backward
>>>> compatibility (they are things that can't just be added to the D2
>>>> language),
>>>> few months ago I have listed about ten of them here (and I think
>>>> Walter did
>>>> just ignore them),
>>>
>>> 71 bugzilla issues were resolved just in the last update. I don't
>>> think it's quite fair to characterize the ongoing development as
>>> ignoring the community. You list several things *per day*. I doubt any
>>> organization could keep up with the sheer volume of your output <g>.
>>> I'm not suggesting that you stop doing it, quite the contrary. I just
>>> hope you can be realistic about how much can be done about them in the
>>> short term.
>>
>> Since February, 30% of bugzilla entries are from bearophile!
>> It's really impressive.
>
> I kind of started thinking of Bearophile as the conscience of the
> newsgroup a while back ;-) Always sitting on your shoulder pointing out
> how things should be better or could be fixed. He really is a tireless
> user advocate!
>
> As for the current directly, I think the most critical matter is
> bugfixes, bugfixes, bugfixes, which is why I was pleased to see that
> last changelog. It's disheartening to run headlong into a language bug
> every time I code something in D2.

I don't know about the rest of people here in the NG, but actually I 
would hope bearophile would post much less often, especially when its 
him creating a new thread. And that's simply because he posts way too 
often, with lots of detail, and it takes a lot of time to read up on all 
that content, and to think about it with some depth.
My default behavior with threads created by bearophile is just to skim 
or skip them over altogether. And it has nothing to do with quality of 
what bearophile says, because actually I think he often makes good 
points and brings good insights... but there are just *way* too many of 
them :P (not to mention the huge stream of links to articles on other 
sites that often accompany bearophile's posts)

So yeah, bearophile, that's my plea. :-o Some of us like to sleep the 
recommended number of hours...

-- 
Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer