Re: [Boost] [Describe] Summary Review Summary

From: Glen Fernandes (glen.fernandes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2021-03-16 16:35:27

On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 10:53 AM Niall Douglas wrote:
>
> On 16/03/2021 12:52, Glen Fernandes wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 6:17 AM Niall Douglas wrote:
> >> Something not appreciated outside the committee is that both the library
> >> proposer(s), and their experienced users, often also want substantial
> >> refactoring after their empirical experience.
> >
> > Note that Richard Hodges is inside the committee (just in case that
> > wasn't clear to anyone else).
>
> This is news to me.
>
> I don't recall reading any WG21 papers by him, nor seeing him at any
> WG21 committee meeting. I have only been attending myself for a few
> years, however, so maybe he predates me.
>
> I would be highly surprised if anybody who had regularly attended and
> contributed to other people's papers would have the opinions he has,
> most of which seem to duplicate the echo chambers in certain parts of
> Slack and Reddit and other self selecting engineering groups on the
> internet. Well informed criticism of WG21 is perfectly valid, and
> probably shared by most WG21 participants in fact. But uninformed
> criticism based on grievances is not.

I'm not so surprised. I predate both of you and I have a different
opinion to both of you.

(Which I won't share here, because there's no value in censuring or
praising the committee here).

Glen

Glen