On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:07:56 -0500, Walter Bright
<[email protected]> wrote:
Backward compatibility doesn't mean that the old systems have to support
new features. It just means that the old features continue to work on
the new systems. I have a lot of software built for Win95 that still
works fine <g>. Even the DOS programs still work.
Your argument was about building programs on MacOS 10.5 that crash on
10.4. That's like building programs on Windows XP and expecting them to
run flawlessly on Windows 98.
Although, I will say, having a Hello World executable throw a bus error is
a little over the top in breaking backwards compatibility :)
-Steve
