Glenn Holmer wrote:
I don't think anybody consciously wants to break compatibility,
but I think it would simply be too tempting to add Just One Cool
Feature(tm). That's the way Open Source works: when a programmer
feels an itch, he codes. And that's OK for the kernel, or maybe
XFree86, and for applications. But it's not OK for a programming
language.
It isn't? There are two problems with that statement
1) Sun also exercises control over libraries that are not part of the language proper.
2) In the view of many, there is nothing wrong with developing extensions to a language compiler as long as that compiler continues to support programs which don't make use of that extension. However, I don't think that's what anyone is proposing.
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