Comment by morelisp

> > Even among people who control all the cards, they are in many respects fundamentally incapable of imagining a better world or seizing on that opportunity to try and create one, let alone doing so in a timely fashion.

> This is simply wrong. We (the ISO wg14) don't hold the cards, compilers are free to implement what ever they want, users are free to use what ever tools or languages they want.

This is an incredibly oblivious realization of JeanHeyd's point.