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anon writes on comp.lang.ada:
> Problem with 
> Backward Compatibility:
> 
> 100% backwards compatible is not a cost to be calculated and weighed
> is a requirement for all languages including, the spoken and written
> human languages.

Read Beowulf or even Shakespeare's sonnets and tell me English is
backward compatible.

BS.

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Ludovic Brenta.