The DIP Process

[Timon Gehr]

On 02.03.19 07:15, Elronnd wrote:
> On Friday, 1 March 2019 at 21:23:10 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On a final note it doesn't matter to the DIP approval process how hard 
>> anyone works on the proposal, or how much time they spent on it, etc. 
>> Only results matter. By the same token, I don't expect anyone to care 
>> how much time I spend on D, I don't expect anyone to use D because 
>> people worked hard on it, etc. The only thing that matters is how good 
>> D is.
>>
>> It's a bit like the Olympics. Nobody cares how hard/long an athlete 
>> trained. Only that they win. Who would want it any other way?
> 
> Oh come on.  This comparison makes no sense, the olympics are nothing 
> like a programming language.

It's an analogy. The point was merely that results matter, not effort.