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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>,
	Mohammad Akhlaghi <mohammad@akhlaghi.org>
Cc: bug-gnulib@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GNU gnulib: calling for beta-testers
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2024 00:16:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3bacae59-6c51-47f1-b712-fa886c28451a@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6053467.Zm5cSgjHh6@nimes>

On 2024-04-21 15:27, Bruno Haible wrote:
> ISO C, btw, is also "ever-changing"

Yes, plus if a language is not "ever-changing" it's dead.

The main thing to worry about is when old code stops working not when 
new language features get added. Since Python 3 came out Python has been 
reasonably good about dealing with deprecated features.


  reply	other threads:[~2024-04-22  7:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <7232287.lbvTjQenqM@nimes>
     [not found] ` <7ef75a77-ec33-43e0-8e57-8960b09ccd5a@akhlaghi.org>
2024-04-21 22:27   ` GNU gnulib: calling for beta-testers Bruno Haible
2024-04-22  7:16     ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2024-04-22  8:17       ` Mohammad Akhlaghi
2024-04-21 10:52 Bruno Haible
2024-04-21 11:52 ` Vivien Kraus
2024-04-22  7:56 ` Paul Eggert
2024-04-22  8:23   ` Collin Funk
2024-04-22 11:22     ` Bruno Haible
2024-04-22 20:00       ` Collin Funk
2024-04-22 20:56         ` Bruno Haible

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