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0 pointssmitty1e6y ago0 comments

. . .and the threat of Just Another Vict'ry Announcement (JAVA) as the need to add "sizzle" to the next version looms.

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chooseaname6y ago· 2 in thread

Rock and a hard place, no? Either you keep adding to a language and people keep using it, or you stop adding to a language and people call it a dead language and stop using it.

Most devs don't understand that software can be done and still be useful.

eru6y ago

Well, you could also try to remove from the language.

Like how they removed the `print` keyword when going from Python 2 to Python 3.

But removing is harder than adding.

chooseaname6y ago

Right. Maybe I should have said, "... keep changing a language..."

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