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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
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In article <PREECE.94Oct3095321@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com>,
Scott E. Preece <preece@urbana.mcd.mot.com> wrote:
> I don't mind seeing new features and extensions added to a language, but
> as a general rule, existing, working code should go on working on
> successive versions of the language...

Tcl users agree. A bunch of them sat on John O. until he agreed to put all
the rest of his incompatible changes in in one big chunk, and quit changing
things around thereafter. Assuming he sticks with this (and I know it can be
hard) that era of the language's growth should be over.
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