[Info-vax] General Availability of 9.2 for x86-64

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-07-18, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 7/18/2022 2:16 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2022-07-16, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>> VMS Fortran and VMS C++ does not support newer standards - but those
>>> newer standards are used on other platforms.
>> 
>> Devil's Advocate time: Does adding new standards to a language sometimes
>> make it so complex that it's better to start over with a new language
>> that covers the same usage cases ?
>
> I think so.
>
> But probably not in the case of Fortran 95 -> 2003 and
> C++ 98 -> 11.
>
> (Fortran 77 -> 90 could have been a case)
>

As can what's going on with C++ at the moment.

In the same way as the police have no motivation to reduce the overall
number of criminals in society (after all, if you reduce the number of
criminals, you reduce the number of police required), standards bodies
have no motivation to declare a language "complete", because if they do,
they will be out of a job.

I wonder if we've reached the point where some standards bodies keep
adding features for their own benefit (ie: to keep them in a job),
instead of for the benefit of the software developers they claim to
be working on behalf of ?

Simon.

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