Steve Teale Wrote: > To the D Faithful: > > In recent postings, I have increasingly seen references to the 'Select Few'. > > This kind of reminds me of Iran, where you have 'The Guardian Council', and > 'The Supreme Leader'. > > Now admittedly, this may be an improvement on the C++ standards committee, > but is it the right way to go. Is some form of democracy that bad? > > If we are to have a 'Guardian Council' to protect us from heresy, then should > it not immediately prohibit the heresy of two standard libraries? > > Then maybe we could get to the point of having a nice clean Theocracy system > where __the__ standard library could be controlled by the 'Select Few', but > we could also have a mobile 'potential standard library' where D addicts > could contribute freely to some version control system that could on a > popular vote basis be easily rolled back (by the 'Select Few' of course)? > > Forgive my cynicism, but I have spent most of my working life either trying > to make some money myself, or working for companies that were trying to make > some money. There has to be some direction, and I'm not seeing the leadership > I'd like to anywhere in the D community at present. > > Are there D enthusiasts out there who feel they could handle this task? If > so, please nominate yourselves, and let's have a vote, then there would at > least be some popular mandate to break out of the status quo. > > Superdan - how about it? > > Steve >
diagnosis: heat stroke. buy an aircon. now seriously steve: what the fuck?
