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From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
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Subject: Re: Five Years After
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 07:16:02 -0600
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On 1/22/2018 11:23 PM, Luke A. Guest wrote:
  last century. ;-)
> 
> There’s some really nice additions in 2005 and 2012. But I think the
> language is getting too large, maybe.
> 

All languages are getting too large. Have you looked at
"modern" Fortran for example? It is getting bigger
and more complex than C++ and Ada combined :)

Committee members have to do something, else they
will run out of work. So the only thing they could
do is keep making the computer languages more and more
complicated.

--Nasser