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No new features, no improvements, nothing -- just the same language, for a decade. Am I alone in being excited by this? I am figuratively drooling over such s
by calroc 12y ago
No new features, no improvements, nothing -- just the same language, for a decade.
Am I alone in being excited by this? I am figuratively drooling over such stability.
- coldtea 12y agoTry ANSI C then!
- raverbashing 12y agoI heard Pascal is all the rage nowadays Or a good, supported, still used and very stable language: Fortran.
- coldtea 12y agoYeah. Actually, sarcasm aside, there's nothing wrong about using those languages at all. The only pain point is Pascal's lack of a nice-sized community (and thus libraries, support for modern systems etc) nowadays.
- shitgoose 12y agoFortran=Math. Wherever there are projects solving math problems, they are running Fortran code. Or at best code ported from Fortran libraries.
- dragonwriter 12y agoFortran's most recent standard (Fortran 2008, adopted as an ISO standard in September 2010) was actually adopted more recently than the 2.7 release of Python, so, arguably, Python 2.x has been static for longer than Fortran. (Obviously, if you said, e.g., Fortran 77, the story would be different.)
- shitgoose 12y agoNo you are not alone. But you are minority. Majority sees the language not as a tool to solve specific problems, but as a goal, i.e. a way to chase its own tail endlessly. Hence the rudderless pursuit of new. The whole industry is in ADD mode - they moment they create something useful, they discard it and start a new quest.
- pekk 12y agoProjects which never improve get replaced in a few years by new projects which did things better, and by other old projects which improved. This is not ADD, this is not rudderless. This is preferring actively maintained and improved things over old crap that never gets fixed