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PD is great, what other language is working towards a 30 year backward compatibility!



(La)TeX

https://www.tug.org

It won't change so that Knuth can finish:

https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/taocp.html


Common Lisp is almost to thirty years because it has a consensus standard.


Really, that is something that sets it apart in my mind. An explicit, rolling two decade+ compatibility effort.


Tcl.




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