On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 11:03:35PM +0000, Meta wrote: > On Saturday, 12 April 2014 at 22:40:32 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: > >Now if we can only iron out the last 5% of D's wrinkles, it would be > >a HUGE relief from C/C++ nastiness. (Unfortunately, Pareto's > >principle dictates that this last 5% is gonna take us 95% of the > >time. :-P) > > > > > >T > > You mean the first 10 (or 13?) years was only the first 5%? I feel tired.
No, the first 10 years was the first 95%. But the last 5% will take the next ... 90 years??? Oh dear. Hopefully we get our act together before then. LONG before then! :-P T -- We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. -- Robert Wilensk
