std.parallelism: VOTE IN THIS THREAD

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 04/24/2011 11:18 AM, lurker wrote:
> Yes, everyone is voting yes. And half of the voters haven't ever used
> parallelism or know anything about its library level design issues.
> This voting process seemed like a joke. I know this kind of voting is
> popular in other projects, but D community's infrastructure isn't
> ready for this. It just shows how UNagile and clumsy the design
> process is and merely a meat puppet theatre for hiding a dictatorship
> with uninformed "democracy". You could just add stuff until someone
> starts complaining and begin hardcore technical discussion when real
> problems arise.
>
> Cheers, sock puppet #2347

There are a couple of issues that reflect quite ironically on the author 
of this.

First, well, it's a sock puppet - meaning that the statement is 
something the author would be ashamed to put their name under.

But the funniest thing is the _choice_ of criticism. If the point is to 
demean the D programming language's community, I'm sure there are much 
better cherries to pick than this one! The proposal on std.parallelism 
is at its second incarnation after having been practically demolished in 
its first instance. It's quite obvious to anyone who paid attention that 
the good consensus this time around is a direct consequence of the 
extensive improvements prompted by strong scrutiny.

Regarding the expertise level of the voters, I agree with what others 
said - a non-expert reviewer and voter is a valuable resource. I presume 
that people who don't give a crap about a domain won't bother to vote. 
Then, if an interested non-expert looks over the documentation and 
thinks "well this is something that I see myself using if the need 
arises" then that's good signal too. It was in fact one criticism I made 
about the first version of std.parallelism - its documentation was 
written for specialists.

Last but not least, associating David Simcha with an allegation of a 
dictatorship - that literally put a smile on my face. David would be 
probably the worst example of a dictatorship's camarilla ever. The only 
thing about David that anyone in the dictator's inner circle knows is 
his work.


Andrei