Breaking backwards compatiblity

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Sun Mar 11 13:02:50 PDT 2012


On 3/11/2012 8:29 AM, deadalnix wrote:
> Win9x was good back then. Now it is crap.

Sure, but it's only fair to assess it in the context of its times, not current 
times.


> When doing something new (like D) you don't only need to provide something as
> good as what existed before. Actually, providing better isn't enough either. You
> need to provide enough to compensate the cost of the change, and additionally
> communication/marketing must convince user to switch.

Yup.


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