The looming Python 3(000) monster

[Jesse Keating]

> On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 12:35 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> 
> I just don't get why any sane person, especially anyone familiar with 
> computer languages, would ever want to give something that is not the 
> same the same name.  Does anyone know how the developer(s) manage this 
> themselves?  I have to think they are keeping multiple concurrent 
> versions installed (and that that is the only reasonable approach).

I'm pretty certain that if you look at any language, they've all faced
similar scenarios, major version upgrades that may in fact not be
forward no backward compatible.  People have dealt with it and moved on.
No language is perfect.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
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