On Wednesday, 12 December 2012 at 08:04:07 UTC, Han wrote:
Walter Bright wrote:
On 12/11/2012 10:35 PM, Han wrote:
Walter Bright wrote:
I'm interested in crafting D to be a language that people
will like
and use.
Does that statement, then, represent a change in direction
for the D
project? How long will this "crafting" take? Has this
"crafting" been
already going on now for a decade? More than a decade? I'm
new here
and would like to hear it "from the horse's mouth", so people,
please let Walter answer first.
All languages in active use undergo continuous improvement by
their
developers. Ones that don't are called dead languages.
So you are skirting the issue then, or going to come back and
post a real
answer after you think about it some more? Has the "crafting"
toward "to be
a language that people will like and use" been going on from
the start, or
is that a new direction? Define "people": who is the target
user of D, who
has been and is the target changing now? What about the time
thing? Perhaps
you should just repost the link to the historical/future
roadmap/timeline
for that.
Further down in this discussion thread, I just posted more on
this same
topic for your consideration. I think "prospectus" is the term
I am looking
for: what a better time than the last month of the year to do
that!
Who are you ? You are new here and you speak with an aggressive
tone, like Walter owes you something. What exactly makes you
think Walter or anyone else owes you what you want ?
I am sure people here are interested in seeing your own language
or open source project and how you manage its development. I will
be glad to see the timeline and direction you give to it.
