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I didn't dispute that. I just state that trying to remain compatible for the sake of being compatible is a great way to design a convuluted and difficult to und

I didn't dispute that. I just state that trying to remain compatible for the sake of being compatible is a great way to design a convuluted and difficult to understand standard.

gpderetta 10y ago
Of course, but lack backward compatibility is a great way to make sure a standard is not adopted. For example he reason that UTF-8 'won' is that it has a great backward compatibility story with other ASCII based encodings and systems.