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Le Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:26:20 +0100, Nasser M. Abbasi <nma@12000.org> a  =

=C3=A9crit:
> I think it is by 'law' that an ISO standard language needs to be
> updated every 5 or so years?
>
> Something to keep the language lawyers busy all the time :)
>
> As an effect of this, one can see that computer languages start
> simple, and in couple of decades they all become so complicated
> and complex to use. Then a new simple language comes along,
> and the cycle starts again.
>
> This happens to all languages, look at the new FORTRAN. If you
> think Ada is complex and has lots of features, you need to
> look at new Fortran.
>
> Also, Look at Java now, it started as a simple language in 1995,
> now I find it the language very complicated with all the additions
> made to it.
You may be comparing things the wrong way. May be Ada is just covering  =

many areas. This is not the same as covering one area with many  =

complications.


> I miss turbo pascal now ;)
>
> --Nasser
Wake me some good memories too :)


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