Reminds me of?

2009-07-02 Thread Steve Teale
To the D Faithful: In recent postings, I have increasingly seen references to the 'Select Few'. This kind of reminds me of Iran, where you have 'The Guardian Council', and 'The Supreme Leader'. Now admittedly, this may be an improvement on the C++ standards commi

Re: Reminds me of?

2009-07-02 Thread Mike L.
Steve Teale Wrote: No no, you're doing it wrong. It's HITLER that you're supposed to compare them to, not Islamic Fundamentalists.

Re: Reminds me of?

2009-07-02 Thread Walter Bright
Mike L. wrote: No no, you're doing it wrong. It's HITLER that you're supposed to compare them to, not Islamic Fundamentalists. By the Secret Rules of Internet Flame Wars, the first person to bring up nazis loses!

Re: Reminds me of?

2009-07-02 Thread Lars T. Kyllingstad
Walter Bright wrote: Mike L. wrote: No no, you're doing it wrong. It's HITLER that you're supposed to compare them to, not Islamic Fundamentalists. By the Secret Rules of Internet Flame Wars, the first person to bring up nazis loses! Ah, yes, Godwin's Law. http://xkcd.com/261/ -Lars :)

Re: Reminds me of?

2009-07-02 Thread superdan
Steve Teale Wrote: > To the D Faithful: > > In recent postings, I have increasingly seen references to the 'Select Few'. > > This kind of reminds me of Iran, where you have 'The Guardian Council', and > 'The Supreme Leader'. > > Now admit

Re: Reminds me of?

2009-07-03 Thread Yigal Chripun
Steve Teale Wrote: > To the D Faithful: > > In recent postings, I have increasingly seen references to the 'Select Few'. > > This kind of reminds me of Iran, where you have 'The Guardian Council', and > 'The Supreme Leader'. > > Now admit

Re: Reminds me of?

2009-07-03 Thread Don
Steve Teale wrote: To the D Faithful: In recent postings, I have increasingly seen references to the 'Select Few'. > > This kind of reminds me of Iran, where you have 'The Guardian Council', and 'The Supreme Leader'. The similarities are pretty we

Re: Reminds me of?

2009-07-03 Thread Jarrett Billingsley
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Don wrote: > Steve Teale wrote: >> >> To the D Faithful: >> >> In recent postings, I have increasingly seen  references to the 'Select >> Few'. > >> >> This kind of reminds me of Iran, where you have &#

Re: Reminds me of?

2009-07-03 Thread bearophile
Jarrett Billingsley: > The frustrating thing about the design process of D is that it is, for > all intents and purposes, a black box. What are you doing now/lately, Walter, on D and why? :-) > Don't you think it's more than a little irksome when a couple of > popular C++ developers come along a

Re: Reminds me of?

2009-07-03 Thread downs
Don wrote: > Steve Teale wrote: >> To the D Faithful: >> >> In recent postings, I have increasingly seen references to the >> 'Select Few'. >> >> This kind of reminds me of Iran, where you have 'The Guardian > Council', and '

Re: Reminds me of?

2009-07-03 Thread Steve Teale
superdan Wrote: > > > > Superdan - how about it? > > > > Steve > > > > diagnosis: heat stroke. buy an aircon. now seriously steve: what the fuck? No, come on man, you can do it - the name says it all! ;=) Aircon's no good here. When you need them, the power will be off.