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On Friday, 22 May 2020 at 05:45:16 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> On Friday, 22 May 2020 at 05:32:52 UTC, Patrick Schluter wrote:
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>> This said, while the changes might be more conservative than 
>> to what happened to other languages, your statement that C 
>> hasn't evolved is simply false.
>
> "evolve greatly"
>
> You guys keep ignoring the adverb.

Because it doesn't mean anything.

[x] Users had to patch every function in order to get type 
safety. Check.
[x] Compiler writers had considerable effort in implementing the 
new standards. Check.
[x] New features like overloading, and type system extension like 
'const' or 'restrict' were added. Check.
[x] New code doesn't compile with older compilers without jumping 
through all sort of hoops. Check.

In fact, Java's backwards compatibility story looks better than 
C's to me.