D : Not for me anymore
Georg Wrede
georg.wrede at nospam.org
Mon Oct 16 14:45:01 PDT 2006
Jari-Matti Mäkelä wrote:
> Walter has promised to implement some things in 2.0, but suddenly they
> are fully implemented (sans possible bugs) in the next release.
Well, I think it is understandable. Since D is a one-man effort, it
would feel downright disgusting to pin down the next two years.
From experience one knows that some of the "unbelievably hard" things
to implement may become just simple after a good night's sleep, or after
a nice morning shower some other problem might just "come to you" in a
flash. Equally, some of the things slated for immediate release might
prove intractable at closer look.
If, OTOH, a language (or any major SW project in general) is developed
by a large group of developers, then it simply becomes imperative to
have roadmaps, timelines, and all that stuff. That simply is the price
to pay for coherence of effort and cohesion of the group.
(From the above two paragraphs it is clear that large projects simply
have to be less productive per capita _unless_ the management is
exceptionally adept and experienced.)
OT:
> It's a
> bit hard to keep track of things unless one regularly reads the NG. The
> worst thing is that whenever something "big" happens, something like
> 5-10 threads with 1000+ messages pops out of nowhere. It takes a week to
> realize what's going on :-I
My feelings exactly. Stay here 18 hours per day and nothing happens. Get
out of town for 2 days, and all of a sudden you find 500 unread messages.
But what bugs me even more is that I continually keep finding "already
old" things that have surreptitiously been fixed or implemented in D,
and by still asking for them here I just make a fool of myself. No help
rereading the entire HTML documentation tree and all the posts here
between every release. Seems like the only way to do this is to
implement a diff system that goes through the whole dmd tree between
each and every release. At times it really is frustrating.
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