Points of Failure

[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 28 July 2015 at 19:11:24 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> http://spot.livejournal.com/308370.html
>
> Anyone care to total up the fail points for D?

LOL. There's a lot of highly subjective stuff on that list, and 
some of it seems to think that normal practices are bad, like

* Your code tries to install into /opt or /usr/local

It's pretty much _standard_ on Linux systems that make install is 
going to put your stuff in /usr/local unless you told configure 
to use a different PREFIX. And on FreeBSD, pretty much everything 
actually gets installed in /usr/local normally anyway.

He definitely have some good points, but he has enough in there 
that a _lot_ of people would disagree with on that the list 
becomes pretty useless as an actual metric IMHO. And his scoring 
system is going to put most projects into fail territory _very_ 
quickly.

An interesting read though.

- Jonathan M Davis