On 06/01/2010 06:09 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
For example, many years ago, Microsoft came out with "incremental linking" as a cool new feature to speed up the link process. This got a lot of buzz in the press. My manager at the time decided we need an "incremental linking" feature in order to catch up to Microsoft. A big all-hands meeting ensued. The thing is, "incremental linking" was a hack that was necessary to work around a very slow linker. Our linker (optlink) was so fast that it ran rings around "incremental linking" even while always doing a full link. We'd failed to get this message out, even to our own management.
Sounds a lot like us failing to get the non-null references message out to you :o).
Andrei
