From: "J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>
Subject: Re: Delays for implementations of Fortran features
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 15:06:15 +0100
Date: 2014-01-19T15:06:15+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <lbgm4n$rkp$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <lbgl80$n0m$1@dont-email.me>
Le 19/01/2014 14:50, Simon Clubley a écrit :
> Sometimes I wonder (and this is a general comment on language committees,
> not something directed to specific language committees like Fortran and
> Ada) if the temptation is to continue adding features into a language,
> even if the language doesn't need it, just so the language committee can
> continue in it's job, even if adding those features were to make the
> language more complex than it needs to be.
Not for the sake of the committee, but a language team that would stop
following the trends and simply say "that's enough, we keep it like
this" would kill the language.
Whether you like it or not, you have to keep moving to prove that you're
not dead.
--
J-P. Rosen
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-18 12:40 Delays for implementations of Fortran features Colin Paul Gloster
2014-01-18 13:03 ` Simon Clubley
2014-01-18 14:37 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2014-01-18 15:20 ` Simon Clubley
2014-01-19 4:07 ` Dan'l Miller
2014-01-19 11:54 ` Marius Amado-Alves
2014-01-19 12:59 ` J-P. Rosen
2014-01-19 13:03 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2014-01-19 13:26 ` Bill Findlay
2014-01-19 13:50 ` Simon Clubley
2014-01-19 14:06 ` J-P. Rosen [this message]
2014-01-19 14:51 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2014-01-20 10:19 ` Marius Amado-Alves
2014-01-25 15:44 ` darek
2014-01-25 21:46 ` darek
2014-01-20 10:15 ` Marius Amado-Alves
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