On Monday, 6 October 2014 at 19:08:24 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 10/6/14, 12:00 PM, Dicebot wrote:
On Monday, 6 October 2014 at 18:57:04 UTC, H. S. Teoh via
Digitalmars-d
wrote:
Or, if you'll allow me to paraphrase it, pay the one-time
cost of broken
code now, rather than incur the ongoing cost of needing to
continually
workaround language issues.
Don in this very thread. Multiple times.
He made a few good and very specific points that subsequently
saw action. This is the kind of feedback we need more of. --
Andrei
And here we go again for the multiple alias this: I'm pleased to
have seen that it will be merged sooner than later.
Just to clarify, taking as an example our company:
- TDPL is a very good training book for C++/Java minions, and
turns them in, well, not-so-good-but-not-so-terrible D
programmers. It solve the "boss" perplexity about "there's
basically no markets for D language programmers: how can we hire
them in the future?".
For the chronicle, the next lecture is the EXCELLENT "D
Templates: a tutorial", of Philippe Sigaud, an invaluable
resource (thank Philippe for that!).
- TDPL is exactly what Dicebot wrote: a plan! Having to bet on
something, a CTO like me *likes* to bet on a good plan (like the
A-Team!)
- Being a good plan, and an ambitious one, as a company we
scrutiny the efforts devoted to complete it, and that set the bar
for future evaluation of the reliability of _future_ plans and
proposal.
As an example, the *not resolution* of the shared qualifier mess,
has a costs in term of how reliable we judge other proposed
improvements (I know, that may be not fare, but that's it).
I'm not telling that the language must be crystallised, and I
also understand that as times goes by, other priorities and good
ideas may come up.
As a company, we don't mind if we are discussing about ARC, GC,
or C++ interop, but we care about the efforts and time placed on
the _taken_ decision, especially for the _past_ plans, and we
judge that care as strictly correlated to language maturity for
business adoption.
Just my 2c... again, no pun intended! ;-P
---
/Paolo
