Let's give a honor to dead giants!

[Roman D. Boiko]

On Thursday, 19 April 2012 at 10:00:29 UTC, Denis Shelomovskij 
wrote:
> D already has a history with heroes and great projects... 
> Unfortunately, lots of dead great projects. IMHO, a monument to 
> them should be set up.
>
> Reasons:
>
> 1. If a project failed because of some design issues (e.g. 
> Descent) new developers should be informed about a danger of 
> this approach and ways to fix it (links to discussions of 
> making a library from a compiler).
>
> 2. If a project failed because of past compiler bugs, lack of 
> developers (DDL?) or other solved/solvable things, new 
> developers should be able to easily find and start reanimation 
> of this project.
>
> Any thoughts?

Great idea. In particular, I would be interested to have more 
information about Descent :)