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[Mike Parker]

On Thursday, 21 May 2020 at 08:36:51 UTC, Araq wrote:

>> improvements came with C99.
>
> Glacial or not, K&R C was significantly different from Ansi C, 
> so C evolved after version 1 just like the other languages, 
> features were added. I don't see this "notable exception". Ymmv 
> I guess.

"evolve greatly after 1.0"

C has not evolved "greatly". By comparison, Java is very nearly a 
different language.