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> On Jul 20, 2016, at 9:54 AM, Tino Heth via swift-evolution 
> <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Peter,
> 
>> Am 20.07.2016 um 00:26 schrieb Peter Livesey via swift-evolution 
>> <swift-evolution@swift.org>:
>> 
>> 1. I don't understand what problem this solves?
> 
> That's just natural — most likely you have just a different mindset.
> 
> There are already several cases where "bureaucrats try to constrict freedom" 
> (sorry, it's hard to come up with neutral words here... but on the other 
> hand: a bureaucrat may have a much more positive interpretation of this term 
> than I ;-), and when I noticed it for the first time, I was really baffled 
> why someone tries hard to push a change that creates limitations without 
> offering any significant benefit…
> I found the missing piece to understand the situation here
> http://martinfowler.com/bliki/DirectingAttitude.html
> Fowler did a great job, and with this hint I realized why I couldn't find any 
> good arguments for the other side: There is none — at least for me, as It is 
> all only a matter of perspective.
> The only thing missing in Fowlers three articles are good designations for 
> members of the two camps (I personally refer to my side as the "hackers", and 
> I already mentioned the "bureaucrats" ;-)
> Imho the discussion would greatly improve if everybody accepted this model of 
> two contrary attitudes.
> 
> This insight really helped me to keep my sanity in the face of many others 
> acting absolutely "nuts", fighting for a change with nothing but downsides 
> and not even a single example that there are situations where it would be 
> beneficial for me.
> 
> So my advice: Be glad that you don't see such problems in your real work 
> life, and hope that the extremists who would like to completely remove 
> classic object orientation and cripple Swift to fully match their ideals 
> don't prevail ;-)

That ship has sailed... it is now just a matter of the implementation 
details... My hopes are now on google forking swift like they did to webkit and 
dalvik. It won't save the apps, bug it would the servers.

> 
> - Tino
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