posted 20 years ago
plus assertions, performance, security, etc. etc.
In fact, there's no reason to stick with 1.3 at all unless there's no 1.4 runtime for your deployment platform.
Even worse for 1.3, there's now 1.5 (5.0?) and no reason to stick even to 1.4 unless there's no 1.5 runtime for your deployment platform.