Jeroen Demeyer wrote:
> On 2016-07-25 18:01, Volker Braun wrote:
>> A language that did not change in the last 20 years is dead, plain and
>> simple.
> 
> I totally agree with this. Backwards compatibility is good to have, but
> it doesn't stand above everything else. A good example that comes to my
> mind is LaTeX: packages constantly need to reinvent the wheel because
> fixing a broken wheel is backwards-incompatible.

To summarize, TeX is dead (as is m4). ;-)


-leif


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