On Friday, 1 March 2013 at 06:57:31 UTC, Zach the Mystic wrote:
So you're saying some of our dogfood is actually caviar then...
I would divide the caviar into two groups, manifest and hidden.
The manifest caviar is the easiest to sell. Hidden caviar is
the benefits which are unexpected by at least a portion of the
D community. Each piece of hidden caviar therefore needs one or
more champions.
Not that this is a perfect example, but the lexer being
assembled by Brian and Dmitri seems to have a spark of the
hidden caviar about it, lending weight to the "clean room"
camp. The politics of "existing" versus "clean room" must be
mastered because there's a lot of room for resentment there if
the wrong choices are made, it seems to me.
One thing both "clean room" and "existing" have, or should
have, in common is the test suite, which is probably a better
spec than the spec is. Perhaps a method can be devised which
makes it easy to divide and conquer the test suite.
By "clean room" I really meant starting from scratch, regardless
of license.
