Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote "The Last Thing D Needs"

[w0rp via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 21:16:34 UTC, Chris Nicholson-Sauls 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 20:11:13 UTC, w0rp wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 19:43:57 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
>> wrote:
>>> On Tue, 27 May 2014 14:57:46 -0400, w0rp <devw0rp at gmail.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> That was brilliant. I think Scott made two very good points. 
>>>> D needs people like himself to educate others
>>>
>>> I think you misunderstood that point ;) He was saying to make 
>>> D so that we DON'T need specialists like himself that can 
>>> make a career out of explaining the strange quirks of D, 
>>> mostly by not having those quirks in the first place.
>>>
>>> -Steve
>>
>> Oh, I see what he's saying now. The *last* thing. That's... 
>> confusing use of English. It makes more sense with respect to 
>> his other comment, though.
>
> Sometimes I think English could use a guy like him.

I'm actually a native speaker of 25 years and I didn't get it at 
first. Natural language communicates ideas approximately.