On 09/25/2013 01:55 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 9/24/2013 4:43 PM, Dicebot wrote:
You may underestimate power of marketing in IT world :)
i.e. compiler fashion!
It does not matter how
useful feature was on its own - clang guys has convinced the crowd it
is useful
so now it is useful. Its actual merit is irrelevant unless you want to
invest
into "counter-propaganda".
Probably the most insightful comment in this thread.
It should be noted however, that it is completely vacuous in a context
where the goal is to infer something about the actual merit.