您被迫去寻找原因 —— 也许甚至设想 —— 为什么早先项目不会成功。

You are forced to find reasons -- perhaps even imagine them -- for why the project could never have succeeded in the first place.

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早先项目组决定仅仅只使用开源软件，但是”计算机辅助设计软件工具仍然是开源领域的最大弱势所在“梅尔兹说道。

A decision was made early on to use only open-source software, but "computer-assisted design (CAD) tools are still the biggest weakness in open-source, " says Merz.

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早先的报道认为Rosyln项目只是更好的运行时能够访问的编译器以及REPL样式的解释器，但是现在看来它的目的远不止如此。

Early reports suggested that the Rosyln project would just be a better runtime-accessible compiler and REPL-style interpreter, but it turns out that it is much more ambitious.

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