On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 06:47:28PM -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > On 3/21/14, 5:18 PM, w0rp wrote: > >On Friday, 21 March 2014 at 21:52:47 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: > >>I'm disappointed about how many discussions revolve around > >>superficial things such as syntax, while neglecting weightier > >>matters such as semantics and expressiveness. > >> > >> > >>T > > > >http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Wadler%27s_Law > > > >People love to debate syntax. Semantics are much more interesting and > >worth talking about. > > Well, one issue that's happening is that every so often github pull > requests that are simple but important (such as documentation) sit > there without getting due review. The regular contributors are > spending time looking into them, with takes away time from more > important issues they could work on. > > A dozen people are doing the simple work and the complicated work, > while the rest of the forum sits on the sidelines wringing hands about > what to do about the future of D. [...]
Perhaps we should be talking about how more people can make github contributions instead. ;-) T -- Why are you blatanly misspelling "blatant"? -- Branden Robinson
