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by ablanton 1399 days ago
PD is great, what other language is working towards a 30 year backward compatibility!
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(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.