[Info-vax] Userland programming languages on VMS.

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <61f854ec$0$692$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>,
=?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes: 

> >> But Fortran 77 to 90 was more than the typical version change. I think
> >> it could have justified a name change.
> > 
> > Considering that essentially all of Fortran 77 works in Fortran 90, then
> > a name change would be bad.
> 
> Fortran 77 code build with Fortran 90 compilers, but how Fortran 90 was
> intended to be written is very different from Fortran 77, and a lot
> of Fortran 77 features were declared obsolete and to be removed
> in a future version (and some were actually removed in 95, other are
> still waiting to be axed).

Right, but changind the name would have been misleading.

> >                               I've heard about other new, popular
> > languages which don't respect backward compatibility.  :-)
> 
> Not so common.

Python is common.  :-|

> Python division from 2.x to 3.x may be the best known example.

Right.  It is also THE hip, hit-the-right-buzzword language for all the 
young dudes.