I wish I could use D for everything

[Daniel Keep]

grauzone wrote:
> I'm using D1, but it's a bug rollercoaster. I'm claiming what D needs is
> not new spiffy features, that solve all currently known problems of the
> computer science world, but a rock stable toolchain.

Would be nice, yes.

That said, we've got buildable source for DMD now, so more people are
starting to help squash bugs.

>> The D2 website needs a big red label on the front sayin' "Warning:
>> lark's vomit."
>>
>> Or "Warning: pre-release software; do not use for anything, ever."
>>
>>   -- Daniel
> 
> By the way, why do people feel the need to "sign" their posts, even
> though the news protocol already provides a "From: " field, that not
> only makes the signature redundant, but is also better to spot, is
> recognized by the news readers, and usually provides more information?

Force of habit?  Holdover from the days when we wrote things on bits of
pulped trees which didn't have a convenient "From:" field.

What I want to know is why people quote multi-page messages only to add
a single line to the bottom that's only tangentially related to the
message they're responding to.

  -- Daniel