Steve Teale wrote:
Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:
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itself, but such opinions have lately become a choir of whines
fulfilling a "if I want something from D, and I expect Walter to do it"
pattern. We need the exact opposite - if you care, what can *you* do to
make D better? D needs action and leadership.
Leadership, now there's an interesting concept!
Maybe we should nominate a leader by popular acclaim, then let her lead.
I don't think that Walter has time to be both supremo of development
and D leader (pardon the pun) at the same time. In any case it's
probably the case that the two roles require completely different
mindsets. I remember John Haggins (Zortech), when Walter was working
on one of the earliest versions of C++. They were as different as
chalk and cheese. But commercially the combination worked for some
time.
So since D is now mostly open source, perhaps we should discuss
democracy?
Democracy and leadership, mentioned in the same post. (By PP and PPP.)
An oxymoron, if I ever saw one.
Coming from a country where military service is compulsory to all,
leadership, responsiblility, and comand, are not something you assign at
will. That's common knowledge around here.
They're toothless without matching authority, independence (within their
domain), and (what I'd call) appropriate slack. And in practice, the
individual assigned needs sufficient charisma, needless to say.
Folks more eloquent than I have distilled this into two quaint
sentences: "authority without responsibility equals dictatorship", and
"responsibility without authority equals bureaucracy".
Out of these two (in a D context), I fear the latter more.
