Phango

[renoX]

Kris a écrit :
> There's a fair chance the poster below is actually Janice, but just in case 
> there really is someone voicing an honest opinion there, read on ...

Uh? That's my honest opinion: when contributors add new code in a 
project, reusing the same style as the other code is a sign of 
professional/mature programmers (ok, amateurish was too strong sorry)

Linux kernel developers have even made a Perl script to ensure that new 
developers respect their "style"..

The exception is some rare case where the style is truly stupid, in 
which case you should first convince the authors to change their style, 
but here for the module naming, this isn't the case: this change was a 
gratuitous one.

renoX
> 
> What many people fail to realize is that software doesn't survive without 
> nurture. In fact, when you forcibly freeze software, it tends to die quite 
> quickly (this is what happened to Simula, for those who follow language 
> history, and it's somewhat relevant here since Simula is perhaps the closest 
> relative to D).
> 
> The take-home message is that Tango will continue to develop, grow, improve, 
> mature, in a non-static fashion. If anyone wants to chase that with a 
> redundant copy, that's their folly. Making a copy of Tango functionality is 
> only inviting more work for yourselves, and generating out-of-date 
> functionality for others to operate with. Isn't that obvious?
> 
> The recommendation is this: if you'd like something changed within Tango, 
> then request it. We can't always please everyone, but we do manage to make a 
> lot of people happy with the (often real-time) changes we do make. Having 
> said that, requesting sweeping stylistic changes, based purely upon personal 
> preference, is likely to conflict with the personal preference of others. 
> It's very hard to resolve such a dilemma, as I'm sure everyone can 
> understand.
> 
> - Kris
> 
> 
> "phango" <phango at phangowant.com> wrote in message 
> news:fhnplh$1cs3$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> i love that - please release it to us all!
>> can't wait to get it for all the reasons you put forth.
>>
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