The looming Python 3(000) monster

[Les Mikesell]

Horst H. von Brand wrote:
> Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> 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).
> 
> You mean like C? There was plain K&R C, then futzing around with lint, then
> several popular C extensions, then along came ANSI C (C89), then C99; all the
> while there were all sorts of "interesting" GCC extensions included,
> changed, retracted, added in the standard or replaced in it by a completely
> different way of doing the same thing...

And yet, in all that time, I never had a problem continuing to run a 
previously working C program even in the extremely rare cases where an 
updated compiler wouldn't build a new copy.  Python doesn't work that way.

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   Les Mikesell
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