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2:11 AM

@gnat @ThomasOwens Thanks, I looked into it and determined that they were all the same IP and the email addresses indicated it was highly likely they were all the same person. One of them I did not merge because the name could have been a family member with the same last name behind the same router. Thanks for pointing that out.

Merry Christmas Programmers!

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gnat

7:30 AM

thanks @maple_shaft Yesterday I noticed that two of the users you just merged have also accounts at SO. Does it make sense to worry about merging these?

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Yannis Rizos

9:46 AM

@gnat Account merges propagate network wide by default.

gnat

10:03 AM

I see. This makes good sense - thanks @YannisRizos

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Jimmy Hoffa

4:22 PM

Why is this question closed?

Q: Are there any programming languages that follow a minimalist development approach?

I find it that when languages are considered the same as commercial software, there is always a constant need to add new features to justify new releases. Can there be or are there languages where version 1.0 is the final version? Of course bug fixes are exempt from this, but the feature set alw...

Looks like a good question to me.. wish there wasn't a score req for votes to reopen

It's a pointed question asking if anyonw knows of a language that meets a very specific criteria

It's not subjective, it would be useful to others to know of a language that meets that criteria

Humbug.

Dynamic

@JimmyHoffa I agree. Voted to reopen.

user55340

4:51 PM

@JimmyHoffa Would it be possible to put a "Long answers with stuff preferred" notice on it? The two answers are sub-par.

Jimmy Hoffa

5:02 PM

I agree, but that's a reason to downvote the answers not the questions

or flag them for that matter

answers that are one liner junk are flaggable

there is a review space for thaty

(unless I am mistaken @YannisRizos )

Dynamic

5:56 PM

@JimmyHoffa It was reopened

user55340

Working on an answer...

Dynamic

Mark Trapp deleted his account on Stack Exchange entirely!

Since when?

Jimmy Hoffa

6:13 PM

I wish I had the energy to find evidence and details regarding the minimalism of haskell. They literally took everything away that didn't serve a clear purpose and most language improvements over haskell '98 (1.0ish) have been in the form additional functions in the default framework, not actual language features

user55340

6:48 PM

I personally feel that is a misguided question. You don't need to learn all the new things in a language when it is released, just be aware of the features for when you do want them.

user55340

One didn't need to switch everything to a for( : ) loop in java when 1.5 came out. One doesn’t need to rewrite all of the catch statements when 1.7 makes it out.

user55340

A language that was frozen or nearly frozen isn't necessarily something that is good today.

Dynamic

8:37 PM

This is one reason why we get a bunch of junk on our site:

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