On Wednesday, 12 April 2017 at 07:51:28 UTC, Joakim wrote:
On Tuesday, 11 April 2017 at 19:18:32 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 10:24:01AM -0700, Walter Bright via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On 4/11/2017 2:18 AM, qznc wrote:
> It usually comes down to charismatic and visionary leaders.
> Walter and Andrei are good with that, otherwise D would
> have faltered long ago.
For a socially inept nerd such as myself, with all the
charisma of a lamppost, I think D has done very well.
You underestimate yourself. While you're no charismatic hero
by any stretch of imagination, you do carry quite some weight
in what you say simply by your history of achievements, as
well as your technical expertise and wealth of experience in
computer-related issues. It's no surprise that in this crowd
full of like-minded nerds who respect technical expertise,
you're doing none too badly. It might be a completely
different story if you were in a more "typical" social
setting, though. :-P
I was going to say something similar. I have seen responses in
reddit/HN threads where devs were in awe that Walter Bright
responded to them. In the tech community, which has
_completely_ different ideas of what constitutes charisma and
vision, Walter and Andrei, with his distinguished history and
very entertaining talks, are pretty much the definition. That
is not the issue, D has those in spades.
+1
I'm not sure if Walter can claim to have written a complete C++
compiler all by himself. Even if not, he is probably the one
person on this planet, who is closest.
Walter is also pretty good with nerd-sniping [0]. ;)
[0] Example:
https://forum.dlang.org/post/mg13tc$2ptk$1...@digitalmars.com
