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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
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Subject: Re: Delays for implementations of Fortran features
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On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 15:06:15 +0100, "J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>
declaimed the following:

>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.

	The trick is to differentiate the motion from rot and decay effects.
-- 
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