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Why are Modula, Modula 2, and Modula 3 so different? Or PHP 3 and PHP 7? Or K&R C, C89, C99, and C11? Or ISO Pascal, Turbo Pascal, Object Pascal, and Delphi? T
by cestith 7y ago
Why are Modula, Modula 2, and Modula 3 so different? Or PHP 3 and PHP 7? Or K&R C, C89, C99, and C11? Or ISO Pascal, Turbo Pascal, Object Pascal, and Delphi?
There are many, many languages that have been closely related but with wildly different names. There have also been plenty of languages which shared mostly the same name but are very different. It might be easy to see a mistake here in hindsight, but when the project first started that was much less clear.