D : Not for me anymore

[Walter Bright]

Georg Wrede wrote:
> Kristian wrote:
>> So maybe we should have contents on APIs first. When we got the base  
>> structure right, we can make competitions on parts (e.g. functions,  
>> classes) that should be efficient, or hard to implement. Bulk 
>> (trivial)  stuff can be implemented outside the competitions later. 
>> Also, API  implementations should include documentation.
> 
> I think an API competition should definitely be in two stages:
> 
>  - compete on the most useful and best spec
>  - then compete on the most elegant implementations of the winning spec

Design, then code, is the development approach that everyone advocates. 
It's also the approach nobody uses <g>. Design/code/design/code... 
iteratively is the real process. There's a good reason for that - too 
often when implementing a design we discover that the design won't work 
or could at least be improved.