Breaking backwards compatiblity

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Friday, March 09, 2012 16:15:13 H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 01:02:35AM +0100, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> > Linus would probably hate D just as much as he hates C++. :p
> 
> Yeah... I can just imagine his eye scanning the description of D and
> stopping right at the word "GC", and immediately writing a flaming
> vitriolic post to LKML about how a GC is the absolutely worst thing one
> could possibly conceive of putting inside a kernel, and that any kernel
> developer caught flirting with the idea of using D ought to have all
> kernel patches ignored from that point on.

He hates function overloading! I question that he'd ever be happy with 
anything other than C. And he's so specialized in what he works on that I 
think that a number of his opinions are completely inapplicable to the 
majority of programmers. Some of what he says is very valuable, but he's a 
very opinionated person whose opinions often don't line up with the rest of 
the programming world. If you'll notice, Walter sometimes has similar issues 
simply due to the kind of stuff he works on (e.g. thinking that the fact that 
you could run your program in a debugger to see a segfault was enough (rather 
than getting some sort of stacktrace with a segfault), which works great for 
compilers, but works horribly for programs that run for weeks at a time). We 
all have our biases based on what we've worked on. Linus just so happens to be 
very famous and _very_ specialized in the type of stuff that he works on.

- Jonathan M Davis