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So clean the language up, call it a slightly different name if you want, and let those who want to go modern do so. For those who can't, offer maintenance but no major new features for the original version.

Being wedded to mistakes made in the past for fear of breaking current usage is the root of all programming language evil.



> For those who can't, offer maintenance but no major new features for the original version.

How do you imagine doing that?

> Being wedded to mistakes made in the past for fear of breaking current usage is the root of all programming language evil.

Ah yes, let's break large swaths of the web because progress or something




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