Comment by selfmodruntime
12 hours ago
In essence, a standard committee thinks like bureaucrats. They have little to no incentive to get rid of cruft and only piling on new stuff is rewarded.
12 hours ago
In essence, a standard committee thinks like bureaucrats. They have little to no incentive to get rid of cruft and only piling on new stuff is rewarded.
The scheme folks managed to shed complexity between R6RS and R7RS, I believe.
So perhaps I think the issue is not committees per se, but how the committees are put together and what are the driving values.
In D, we are implementing editions so features that didn't prove effective can be removed.