When will D1 be finished?

[Georg Wrede]

Steve Teale wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:
...
>> itself, but such opinions have lately become a choir of whines 
>> fulfilling a "if I want something from D, and I expect Walter to do it" 
>> pattern. We need the exact opposite - if you care, what can *you* do to 
>> make D better? D needs action and leadership.
> 
> Leadership, now there's an interesting concept!
> 
> Maybe we should nominate a leader by popular acclaim, then let her lead.
> 
> I don't think that Walter has time to be both supremo of development
> and D leader (pardon the pun) at the same time. In any case it's
> probably the case that the two roles require completely different
> mindsets. I remember John Haggins (Zortech), when Walter was working
> on one of the earliest versions of C++. They were as different as
> chalk and cheese. But commercially the combination worked for some
> time.
> 
> So since D is now mostly open source, perhaps we should discuss
> democracy?


Democracy and leadership, mentioned in the same post. (By PP and PPP.) 
An oxymoron, if I ever saw one.

Coming from a country where military service is compulsory to all, 
leadership, responsiblility, and comand, are not something you assign at 
will. That's common knowledge around here.

They're toothless without matching authority, independence (within their 
domain), and (what I'd call) appropriate slack. And in practice, the 
individual assigned needs sufficient charisma, needless to say.


Folks more eloquent than I have distilled this into two quaint 
sentences: "authority without responsibility equals dictatorship", and 
"responsibility without authority equals bureaucracy".

Out of these two (in a D context), I fear the latter more.