As painful as it is in the short run, I am inclined to agree with this.
A story I heard once that I love to retell is that after Stu Feldman wrote the first version of 'make' for Unix, he realized that the syntax was borderline unusable, but he didn't want to fix it because he already had 10 users.
I've also heard that Chris Lattner didn't want to release Swift when he did, but was pressured by Apple into doing so. There's no question in retrospect that it wasn't ready, and I think it's entirely fair to beat up on Apple for pushing it out too soon. Nonetheless, since it is out, I think they should do their best to get it right.
Why the tab in column 1? Yacc was new, Lex was brand new. I hadn't tried either, so I figured this would be a good excuse to learn. After getting myself snarled up with my first stab at Lex, I just did something simple with the pattern newline-tab. It worked, it stayed. And then a few weeks later I had a user population of about a dozen, most of them friends, and I didn't want to screw up my embedded base. The rest, sadly, is history.
A story I heard once that I love to retell is that after Stu Feldman wrote the first version of 'make' for Unix, he realized that the syntax was borderline unusable, but he didn't want to fix it because he already had 10 users.
I've also heard that Chris Lattner didn't want to release Swift when he did, but was pressured by Apple into doing so. There's no question in retrospect that it wasn't ready, and I think it's entirely fair to beat up on Apple for pushing it out too soon. Nonetheless, since it is out, I think they should do their best to get it right.