Am 21.05.2011 00:06, schrieb Don: > > For me, the issue is not that it doesn't work. I actually don't mind > that. It's only when there are claims that it does work. Denying that > there is a problem is a great way to ensure it never gets fixed. > > Same thing with D, actually -- it's important for us to be honest about > what maturity level the language is really at.
OK, I totally agree that one should be honest about bugs and the general level of maturity of software. I recently tried to use (and enhance) software that more or less claimed to be stable enough for productive usage and claimed to have a plethora of great features (scalability etc).. and when I read the code (a few thousand lines of undocumented/uncommented ruby, *urgh*) I realized that it was more of a dirty hack that didn't have most of the advertised features.. that's really annoying and disappointing.