On Friday, 2 March 2018 at 01:19:53 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
Because it has not stopped changing. To wit:
K&R C (1978)
C89 / C90 / ANSI C (1989-1990)
The 1995 amendment to ANSI C (1995)
C99 (1999)
(Embedded C (2008))
C11 (2011)
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btw. I never said 'stop changing', I said "I wish programming
languages would just stop changing so often."
And that last update to C, in 2011, was 7 years ago..
relative stability is a sure sign that something is right.
constant, regular, change is a sure sign that something is wrong.
And if stability were not the preferred state towards which
things evolve, then the universe would be a very different place
indeed.
