On 2015-09-25 3:56 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 09/25/2015 12:33 PM, Clem Cole wrote:

"Fortran 2015 is currently 617 pages and will go some more before
publication"​

It does make one curious to ask if *any* language has ever had a smaller
manual/specification than any previous version.

Wasn't Scheme r7rs smaller and simpler than the widely derided Scheme r6rs?

--Toby


If the answer is "no", then we must have a new "law":

"Languages and their documentation will become ever more voluminous and
incomprehensible"


--Chuck



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