Andrew Edwards Posted in reply to w0rp



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On 5/27/14, 2:57 PM, w0rp wrote: > That was brilliant. I think Scott made two very good points. D needs > people like himself to educate others, and that D should focus on > behaviour which makes sense not only in a particular context, but with > respect to the other contexts. (Which is what C++ lacks greatly.) Really? What I got out of it was that D doesn't need people like him because his job is to explain the inconsistencies of the language. By designing a consistent language in the first place, people can readily understand it in all context thereby eliminating the need for people like him. At roughly 04:55 he says: "I am a professional explainer. That's my job. Who knew that you can have a job doing that? Turns out you can actually make a career of it." He gives a slew of examples of kind of things he's got to explain on a daily basis and closes out the whole thing with: "The message that I bring to the D Community, based on my experience with with C++, is that the last thing D needs is somebody like me."