(j3.2006) (SC22WG5.5350) From a colleague

[Van Snyder]

On Mon, 2014-10-27 at 21:17 +0000, Bill Long wrote:
> Well, I guess that is what ?support was discontinued? implies.
> Especially when it was 18 years ago.   I assume development of the
> code stopped many years before support was discontinued.  By the 90?s
> there were way better control constructs available.

And with "support discontinued," how do you revise the code?  Put the
burden on the users of the formerly-supported code, I guess.
Discontinuing support was penny wise and pound foolish.  Three FTE, as
opposed to 600 people randomly fiddling with their private copies.