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Add info about the Supported and Experimental language module status

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This is the result of an email discussion on the swig-devel mailing list
back in March 2017 titled "Radical new approach to development and
moving towards version 3.1 or version 4.0"

A new section in the Introduction chapter has been added, titled
"Target languages". The Extending chapter has the main details in a
new section called "Target language status".
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@ -69,6 +69,9 @@ over a period of 10 years starting from the year 2000. The final version in the
series was 1.3.40, but in truth the 1.3.x series had been stable for many years.
An official stable version was released along with the decision to make SWIG
license changes and this gave rise to version 2.0.0 in 2010.
Version 3.0.0 was released in 2014 focusing on adding C++11 support and C++ nested classes.
Version 4.0.0 was released in 2019 to add in Doxygen support.
Some target languages were disabled as part of a clean up and others were given a new status of either 'Supported' or 'Experimental'.
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<H2><a name="Preface_license">1.3 SWIG License</a></H2>
@ -435,7 +438,7 @@ don't intend to use these features in your own programs.
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<p>
Note: The test-suite currently contains over 500 tests. If you
Note: The test-suite currently contains over 600 tests. If you
have many different target languages installed and a slow machine, it
might take more than an hour to run the test-suite.
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