"As I said in my comments to the committee, [Fortran 90' would be a] nice language, too bad it's not Fortran."
— Fortran

January 1, 1970

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Also commonly applied to other such evolutions of programming languages. E.g: "Perl 6 would be a nice language, but it's not going to be Perl."