Vision for the D language - stabilizing complexity?

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 7/16/2016 6:09 AM, Andrew Godfrey wrote:
> Walter called Prolog "singularly useless". You have been referring to changes
> that would amount to a new major version of D as "a cleanup". From the forums,
> my sense is that there IS a groundswell of opinion, that D2 has some major
> mistakes in it that can't be rectified without doing a D3, and there's a strong
> reaction to that idea based on experience with D1 -> D2. Perhaps what is needed
> is a separate area for discussion about ideas that would require a major version
> change. The thing about that is that it can't be done incrementally; it's the
> rare kind of thing that would need to be planned long in advance, and would have
> to amount to a huge improvement to justify even considering it.

I agree that D2 has made some fundamental mistakes. But it also got a great deal 
right.

I haven't banned Ola from the forums, he has done nothing to deserve that. He's 
welcome to post here, and others are welcome to engage him.