Re: Immutability of computer languages nee History of French

From: Mxsmanic (mxsmanic_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/24/04 

Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 18:59:31 +0200

Ron Hardin writes:

> Then there is backward compatibility - the political problem that backward people
> object when their programs stop compiling, so you have to temporarily accept both the old
> and new constructions. This leads to a paradox : there are compilers that accept
> only the old construction, and here are compilers that accept both the old and
> the new construction. Which one is the actual standard? The old construction.
> All compilers accept it. The new construction works only on new compilers.

Quite so. 

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