[Info-vax] Userland programming languages on VMS.

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/31/2022 4:35 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> 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 don't agree.

>>>                                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.

True.

But the change was very public. So whoever needed
to change / to // hopefully got it changed.

I think the change was a mistake. But they did it.

And it was rather unique.

Arne