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Re:You Want Technology with Warts by eru on Friday October 03, 2025 @03:21AM (#45460020)
Matlab, at least the language, has changed quite a bit when I was using it. Eg they added being able to pass functions as first class values.

But that was more than a decade ago, I guess?

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Re:You Want Technology with Warts by kqr on Friday October 03, 2025 @10:32AM (#45463473)
Languages often add features in ways that does not break existing code. I think here we are discussing changes that are backwards-incompatible.
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