bearophile Wrote: > Justin Johansson: > > > Can we hire this guy for D? > > To create the best JIT of the world you need skills that are probably quite > different from the skills needed to design a new language constrained to be > kinda backwards compatible with C and that's in the range of complexity of > C++. I think you need a person able to design things in a very orthogonal > way, to not add more special cases in D2 and remove some of the ones already > present. I think a person like Guy L. Steele Jr. may be fitter :-) > > Bye, > bearophile
Of course. It wasn't a serious question (plus who's got money to hire anyway); and, btw, certainly not in way meant to be disrespectful of the many talented people among the core D developers, committers/volunteers and wider D community. ciao, justin
