Scott Dial writes:
I was going to stay out of this discussion, but I find it highly annoying to see all these references to C being "static". One need only glance at the length of GCC's changes for the major version numbers
What does the ChangeLog for an implementation have to do with the stability of the language definition? Guido's moratorium does not attempt to regulate adaptation to new platforms, optimizations, or changes to improve conformance to the language reference, and (AIUI) not even changes to improve conformance of the implementation to programmer expectation where the language reference was ambiguous. Surely the vast majority of GCC changes fit one of those categories. Seems to me you have made a very powerful argument-by-analogy that Guido's moratorium provides plenty of room for hyperactive core development.