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From: David Starner <dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu>
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Subject: Re: on package naming, should the word "_pkg" be part of it?
Date: 11 Oct 2001 17:41:02 GMT
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On 11 Oct 2001 08:34:01 -0700, Robert* @ <Robert_member@newsguy.com> wrote:
> 
> Languages get changed all the time. If a language does not adopt it dies.
> 
> Ada itself changed. we had Ada83, then came Ada95 to add OO features becuase
> that what was needed to keep Ada moving along with the current needs of
> software.
> 
> C changed, C++ came from C to add OO to it.
> 
> Fortran changed. now we have fortran 90.
> 
> COBOL changed.
> 
> Java is being changed to add generics to it.

And the only one of these which had real synatic change was Fortran, and
that's because Fortran had one of the most painful syntaxs ever.
Functional changes are good; diddling with syntax makes nothing simpler
and usually annoys more people then it helps. 

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