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On 24/01/2012 20:03, Joshua Landau wrote:
> On 24 January 2012 17:25, Blockheads Oi Oi <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk
> <mailto:breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk>> wrote:
>
>     On 24/01/2012 15:46, Andrea Crotti wrote:
>
>         I suggest to create English 2.0, and convince the whole world to
>         speak
>         your own
>         way better implementation of English.
>
>
>     Too late for that when comparing modern English with that of e.g.
>     Dickens, Shakespeare, Chaucer and Bede, hence at a minimum I reckon
>     we should be at 6.0.
>
>
> A simple version number doesn't imply huge breakages. Try "English2 v1.0"!
>
> In fact, why would a perfect language need a version number?
>
>
It would be difficult to maintain Python without a version number.