Contradictory justification for status quo

Zach the Mystic via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun Mar 1 16:48:54 PST 2015


On Saturday, 28 February 2015 at 23:03:23 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:
> On 2/28/2015 2:31 AM, bearophile wrote:
>> Zach the Mystic:
>>
>>> You can see exactly how D works by looking at how Kenji 
>>> spends his time. For a
>>> while he's only been fixing ICEs and other little bugs which 
>>> he knows for
>>> certain will be accepted.
>>
>> I agree that probably there are often better ways to use Kenji 
>> time for the
>> development of D.
>
> Actually, Kenji fearlessly deals with some of the hardest bugs 
> in the compiler that require a deep understanding of how the 
> compiler works and how it is supposed to work. He rarely does 
> trivia. I regard Kenji's contributions as invaluable to the 
> community.

I don't think anybody disagrees with this. Kenji's a miracle.


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