On Monday, 25 January 2016 at 16:31:50 UTC, JohnCK wrote:
On Monday, 25 January 2016 at 16:02:09 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Monday, 25 January 2016 at 15:45:09 UTC, Ola Fosheim
Grøstad wrote:
Please guys don't get stuck on small things like this. I'm
seeing this behavior growing up in here.
It is not a small thing in the sense that it affects D's ability
to complete features before adding more features.
Let's follow the metaphores:
- Andrei is the general.
- Walter is the general/special forces.
The special forces are highly skilled, but don't bring common
soldiers along. They don't exercise leadership, but swiftly
implement features on direct orders from the generals: like C++
exceptions, UDAs etc.
Here's the problem: features are added before the existing
features are completed without any documentation/rationale for
why the new features are of the highest priority.
This goes on while the population is suffering from traffic jam
caused by a lack of basic infrastructure like non-GC
memory-management.
Is the lack of memory management a small thing? Hell no. So why
isn't it of the highest priority? Because it is difficult to
design?
Well, then you need to replace the generals with a process that
can bring in more viewpoints.
Now, in defense of Andrei, I'll say that he has become much less
of a general in the past two years, and more of an enabler, and
that he also created a forum to allow more viewpoints to be
presented. But the generals aren't nurturing the process! And the
implementation of D still depends on Walter operating as the
special forces rather than bringing other people up closer to his
level...
Not a small problem. Establishing a better process with better
yield is a challenging problem. It won't happen by itself.
And please don't waste your time answering this.
So you are basically in favour of censorship? Which is an
authoritarian mode of leadership. Thus you don't mind having
generals as a metaphor.
Don't you think that people can decide for themselves which
debates they want to engage in? Which is a more democratic way of
organizing decision making processes.
