[Info-vax] General Availability of 9.2 for x86-64
Arne Vajhøj
arne at vajhoej.dk
Tue Jul 19 17:43:49 EDT 2022
On 7/19/2022 8:37 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2022-07-18, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> On 7/18/2022 2:16 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> 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.
> 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 ?
I believe most of the standard working groups members actually
have a day job besides their standards work.
Arne
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