On Sunday, 18 August 2019 at 00:10:03 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Reading between the lines, I get the impression that you have given up on evolving D as a language? Can't say I am surprised.
>
> You must have been in a state of continuous surprise over the past 15 years then.
>
> This asinine remark reminds me of the rumor mill on the hallways at DConf 2019. "What happened to Vladimir? You must have done something terrible to him." Sure, let's confront Vladimir on why he only put one decade of his career into volunteering for a free project.

Since you are being abusive I didn't want to reply ... but then it occurred to me maybe my remark is misunderstood. I meant that having given so much to D, and perhaps not getting the outcome you desired for D, it is understandable if you decided to move on.

Regards

On 18.08.19 11:45, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote:
> On Sunday, 18 August 2019 at 00:10:03 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> Reading between the lines, I get the impression that you have given up on evolving D as a language? Can't say I am surprised.
>>
>> You must have been in a state of continuous surprise over the past 15 years then.
>>
>> This asinine remark reminds me of the rumor mill on the hallways at DConf 2019. "What happened to Vladimir? You must have done something terrible to him." Sure, let's confront Vladimir on why he only put one decade of his career into volunteering for a free project.
> 
> Since you are being abusive I didn't want to reply ...

Andrei's post is on point.

> but then it occurred to me maybe my remark is misunderstood. I meant that having given so much to D, and perhaps not getting the outcome you desired for D, it is understandable if you decided to move on.
> ...

This phrasing is not a lot better. You should have just apologized.

On Sunday, 18 August 2019 at 09:45:26 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote:

>  I meant that having given so much to D, and perhaps not getting the outcome you desired for D, it is understandable if you decided to move on.

This is an open source project. Everyone, including Walter and Andrei, should feel free to step down at any time, for any reason. They owe the project nothing. We're happy for the contributions they've already made. If they want to spend more time with their families, it is my hope that they will step away and not give it any further thought. One measure of the success of the language is that it works pretty well right now and the project will go on even if Andrei has decided to move on to Javascript (the creator of which, I will note, moved on in 2011).

On 8/18/2019 5:21 AM, bachmeier wrote:
> This is an open source project. Everyone, including Walter and Andrei, should feel free to step down at any time, for any reason. They owe the project nothing. We're happy for the contributions they've already made. If they want to spend more time with their families, it is my hope that they will step away and not give it any further thought. One measure of the success of the language is that it works pretty well right now and the project will go on even if Andrei has decided to move on to Javascript (the creator of which, I will note, moved on in 2011).

My next career will be lion taming. I've already got the hat.

On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 03:51:46PM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote: [...]
> My next career will be lion taming. I've already got the hat.

After having dealt with D users and their ... idiosyncrasies for the last decade or two, I think you've got the lion-taming down pat. :-P


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On 8/18/2019 9:39 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 03:51:46PM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> [...]
>> My next career will be lion taming. I've already got the hat.
> 
> After having dealt with D users and their ... idiosyncrasies for the
> last decade or two, I think you've got the lion-taming down pat. :-P

My pleasure to introduce you to Monty Python:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqQlCOmXuHM

On Tuesday, 13 August 2019 at 21:01:38 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> there is not a consensus that design by committee is the best approach

Haha! I agree though, C++ has this, and it seems to slow everything down and cater to every possible use case and concern. This is why D is simpler to use and understand than C++.

On Monday, 19 August 2019 at 07:32:07 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 8/18/2019 9:39 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 03:51:46PM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> [...]
>>> My next career will be lion taming. I've already got the hat.
>> 
>> After having dealt with D users and their ... idiosyncrasies for the
>> last decade or two, I think you've got the lion-taming down pat. :-P
>
> My pleasure to introduce you to Monty Python:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqQlCOmXuHM

Not watching any Monty Python once in a while should be punishable.

On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 04:12:01PM +0000, bauss via Digitalmars-d wrote: [...]
> Not watching any Monty Python once in a while should be punishable.

In that case, please punish me. :-D


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On 8/21/19 9:24 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 04:12:01PM +0000, bauss via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> [...]
>> Not watching any Monty Python once in a while should be punishable.
> 
> In that case, please punish me. :-D

Cardinal Fang! Fetch...THE COMFY CHAIR!