Incompatible changes in C++

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From: Richard Stallman
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 1990 17:50

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    Ah, don't you just love language design by committee?  Especially
    when the committee throws out the "prior art" rule?  X3J11 showed
    commendable restraint in what they did to C, but there are storm
    warnings out for C++...

This spirit of careless incompatibility can be traced back to
Stroustrup.  Didn't he change the behavior of struct and union,
breaking almost all C programs?  Make an ambiguous grammar?

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