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From: Steve Kilbane <steve@whitecrow.demon.co.uk>
Date: Thu,  9 Nov 2000 07:45:35 +0000
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> ok, i'll tell you one story:
> 
>    programs that compiled one day would not compile the next day
> 
> with this sort of reliability, would you choose it as a programming
> language -- and that's long before the bloat.

well, that's not particularly uncommon in the very early days of a
programming language. how many times has ken said they decided not
to change something in the early unix because they now had three
sites with installations? sun learned from that, and allowed java
to continue developing in the early days, leading to the same "problem".

where it becomes a problem is when the language *keeps* changing.