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[Patrick Schluter]

On Wednesday, 20 May 2020 at 21:30:16 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 5/20/2020 8:42 AM, bachmeier wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 20 May 2020 at 14:14:05 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
>> 
>>> [...]
>> 
>> The best example of this is Java. It's evolved a lot over the 
>> years, in spite of being extremely heavily used and being an 
>> enterprise programming language. The Rust leadership would do 
>> well to keep in mind that evolution is not optional. 
>> Especially for a language that has a tiny fraction of the 
>> popularity of Java (in spite of the front page of Hacker News).
>
> Languages that are used over long periods of time evolve 
> greatly after 1.0. Fortran, Basic, C++, Java, Perl, Pascal, 
> Python, C#, D, etc. C is a notable exception.

ANSI C89 and then C99 changed C significantly. Some of the 
features introduced make modern C quite different from the 
initial K&R C.