Re: Forking stables. was Re: language translator help

[Chris Beggy]

Clinton Ebadi <address@hidden> writes:

> The reverse engineer and write your own version of the program. It would just 
> be another example of proprietary software be left behind. Proprietary 
> software is bad anyway, and no one should care about people that use or write 
> proprietary software.

Guy Steele, a computer programming language designer, delivered
a talk titled "Growing a Language."  It's available here:

  http://www.research.avayalabs.com/user/wadler/steele-oopsla98.pdf 

See what he has to say about:

  1. language versioning 
  2. compatibility between versions
  3. interface stability

Chris