Standardization of D

[Sean Kelly]

Bruce Adams wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:22:30 -0000, Jason House
> <jason.james.house at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Don Clugston Wrote:
>>> Right now, D2 is not standard even in that sense -- Walter hasn't
>>> reached a
>>> consensus with himself. <g>
>>> Look how 'const' has changed over the past ten releases.
>>> So to answer the original post -- I expect at least another year of
>>> releases
>>> before Walter will say that the language design is essentially complete.
>>
>> Maybe then it'll be time for D3 ;)
> 
> Design by comittee is reknowned for its speed even when there is concensus.
> Look at how long it took to get ISO C++ and they daren't put a definite
> year
> to C++0x. It was probably a little optimistic putting a 0 there.

I won't say that design by committee is fast, but a considerable amount
of the slowness for C++ is related to the process required by the
standards body itself.  I think the process was really designed with
mechanical and electrical engineering in mind, rather than the quickly
changing software field.


Sean