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.
More information about the Digitalmars-d
mailing list