Maybe D is right about GC after all !

[Laeeth Isharc]

On Wednesday, 27 December 2017 at 16:44:25 UTC, Laeeth Isharc 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 27 December 2017 at 16:29:02 UTC, Russel Winder 
> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2017-12-27 at 02:13 -0800, Walter Bright via 
>> Digitalmars-d
>> wrote:
>> […]
>>> 
>>> Builtin unittests and Ddoc, for example. There's a big 
>>> psychological
>>> advantage
>>> to having them built in rather than requiring an external 
>>> tool. The
>>> closeness to
>>> C syntax is no accident, for another.
>>> 
>>> I've been in the compiler biz since the early 80s, working 
>>> with
>>> customers, doing
>>> tech support. That results in experience in what works for 
>>> people and
>>> what
>>> doesn't, even if it is not scientific or better from a CS 
>>> point of
>>> view.
>>
>> This does not support the original claim that the design of D 
>> by you is based on psychology. It may be based on your 
>> perception of other programmers needs, which is fine per se, 
>> but that is not psychology- based design.
>
> That's like saying the way George Soros trades is not based on 
> psychology because he doesn't refer to the literature in making 
> and articulating his decision-making process.  Instead people 
> write papers about how he thinks, because it's not yet in the 
> literature!
>
> If published knowledge were what was most important or valuable 
> then anyone intelligent with an interest in a subject would be 
> part of a war of all against all, because how is it possible to 
> have an edge?  But I don't think human expertise can be 
> described in that manner.  Karl Polanyi's work is quite 
> interesting:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_knowledge

On Soros:
http://marketfocusing.com/downloads/soros.pdf