• Homer (5/5) Apr 14 2008 Hi,
• Tower Ty (3/12) Apr 14 2008 All languages change and develop and the simplification and standardisat...

Homer <a b.com> writes:

Hi,

When designing a language, please think of the children. Or they are going to
really curse you for yet another initially promising language- turned into a
complex language with many unexpected corner case behaviors :P. I like what I
have seen so far in D. Its really a pleasure to use for small home projects. I
see many people pointing out the rough edges in D 2.0 (comparisions, auto etc)
and I am worried that these may not be addressed properly in order to release D
2.0. I've also seen things like "yeah D doesn't have it but neither does C++". 

Please DO NOT make such concessions. 

Its impossible to design something perfectly that gets everything right, but at
least all issues that are brought up must be ironed out. I wish the D language
development method can be tweaked so that more people can contribute and the
language/ main compiler matures much more quickly.

Thanks.

Tower Ty <tytower hotmail.com> writes:

Homer Wrote:

 Hi,
 
 When designing a language, please think of the children. Or they are going to
really curse you for yet another initially promising language- turned into a
complex language with many unexpected corner case behaviors :P. I like what I
have seen so far in D. Its really a pleasure to use for small home projects. I
see many people pointing out the rough edges in D 2.0 (comparisions, auto etc)
and I am worried that these may not be addressed properly in order to release D
2.0. I've also seen things like "yeah D doesn't have it but neither does C++". 
 
 Please DO NOT make such concessions. 
 
 Its impossible to design something perfectly that gets everything right, but
at least all issues that are brought up must be ironed out. I wish the D
language development method can be tweaked so that more people can contribute
and the language/ main compiler matures much more quickly.
 
 Thanks.

All languages change and develop and the simplification and standardisation
will come from its use in practice and not the other way round .

Your children might learn  "E"  or " F"  or "X"  and they will contain as a
standard starting point the better parts of the languages before them (decided
by the programmers that used them at the time)