backporting features to D1

[Bill Baxter]

On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 6:47 PM, Walter Bright
<newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
> Bill Baxter wrote:
>> I think there was some hope that making a really stable D1.0 would
>> somehow make D1.0 an attractive choice for companies.  But come on.
>> It was a stretch when D1 was just a niche language.  Now it's a niche
>> language that's also obsolete.
>
> People made it clear they were not going to use a language for
> production if it got new features every month. D 1.0 is a complete and
> very usable language, with the goal of being stable and bug free.
>
> You can't have it both ways - you cannot have a stable language while
> constantly adding features.

I recall a wise man who once said you shouldn't give much weight to
what people use as excuses for not using your language.  They probably
aren't going to use it anyway.

--bb