Final by default?

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Thursday, 13 March 2014 at 02:48:14 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 3/12/14, 5:40 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>> From looking at the atmosphere in this newsgroup, at least to 
>> me it
>> appears obvious that there are, in fact, D users who would be 
>> glad to
>> have their D code broken if it means that it will end up being 
>> written
>> in a better programming language.
>
> This is not my first gig. Due to simple social dynamics, forum 
> participation saturates. In their heydays, forums like 
> comp.lang.c++.moderated, comp.lang.tex, and comp.lang.perl had 
> traffic comparable to ours, although their community was 1-2 
> orders of magnitude larger. Although it seems things are 
> business as usual in our little hood here, there is a growing 
> silent majority of D users who aren't on the forum.

So are you saying that the users who participate on the forum are 
not representative of the entire D user base? I.e. the % of users 
who wouldn't mind breaking changes is higher on the forum?