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

[Denis Koroskin]

On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 19:30:59 +0400, Bruno Medeiros  
<brunodomedeiros+spam at com.gmail> wrote:

> 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...
>

No way! Just don't read his posts if you are not interested.