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Upgrades are just hard. See perl5 to perl6 GWbasic to Qbasic to VB to VB.net you either make a clean break or keep all the warts, Either way folks are going t
by segmondy 7y ago
Upgrades are just hard.
See perl5 to perl6
GWbasic to Qbasic to VB to VB.net
you either make a clean break or keep all the warts, Either way folks are going to be unhappy.
Keep the warts, COBOL, Fortran, C, C++, PHP, Excel
- zojirushibottle 7y ago> GWbasic to Qbasic wait wuh? i thought these were just two of the dozen variants of the BASIC dialect... interesting!
- Asmod4n 7y agoRuby did a great job back in the day with their 1.8 release which changed the language to be Unicode friendly.
- mixmastamyk 7y agoWhat did they do differently? I guess they benefited from hindsight.
- lizmat 7y agoRename Perl 6 to Raku. People happier.
- badsectoracula 7y agoIt makes sense if a language is so different and backwards incompatible than the previous version to just rename it to someone else. Hence why a lot of people back in the day felt that Visual Basic .NET should be called Visual Fred instead :-P