The whole paragraph is worth reading If a language is to change over time, this specification or implementation must change. Somebody has to decide how chang

The whole paragraph is worth reading If a language is to change over time, this specification or implementation must change. Somebody has to decide how changes will be made. All successful languages have a small set of people who make the final decisions. Many people will provide input to this decision, but no successful language--indeed, no successful free software project of any sort--is a democracy. Successful languages pay attention to what people want, but to change the language according to what most people want is, I believe, a recipe for chaos and incoherence. I believe that every successful language must have a coherent vision that is shared by a relatively small group of people. And again Many people will provide input to this decision, but no successful language--indeed, no successful free software project of any sort--is a democracy. On point.