tooling quality and some random rant

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Sun Feb 13 18:39:21 PST 2011


Denis Koroskin wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 02:01:53 +0300, Walter Bright 
> <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
> 
>> Michel Fortin wrote:
>>> But note I was replying to your reply to Denis who asked specifically 
>>> for demangled names for missing symbols. This by itself would be a 
>>> useful improvement.
>>
>> I agree with that, but there's a caveat. I did such a thing years ago 
>> for C++ and Optlink. Nobody cared, including the people who asked for 
>> that feature. It's a bit demotivating to bother doing that again.
> 
> Many people are unthankful by nature. They tell about missing features 
> while taking existing ones as granted.
> It doesn't mean no one cares about them. If no one would care, why would 
> we even discuss those features?

Tellingly, I accidentally broke that feature, and nobody complained about that, 
either.


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