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Attempts to create big iterations on successful languages seem to consistently fail to win adoption.

• gjm11 15y ago
  C++ seems like a pretty obvious counterexample, even though it didn't call itself "C". Others: Fortran 90. Common Lisp. Visual Basic. [EDITED to add: Perl 5.] ANSI C was quite a big change from K&R, even.
  • batista 15y ago
    Not to mention: C11x (or whatever it's called), which has huge support from vendors and C++ guys, C# 4.0 that is miles ahead of C# 1.0,