Language change and code breaks (fwd)

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <3B5505A0.F89ADB86 at engcorp.com>,
Peter Hansen  <peter at engcorp.com> wrote:
>Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters wrote:
>> 
>> I go away, no longer available.  The client's web hosting company
>> upgrades the Python installation to Python 3.7 (this is in the future
>> :-)).  Client's scripts break.
>
>In this case, I would argue that the client's hosting company should
>not upgrade Python (especially across a major revision) without either
>notifying everyone who is using it (may be hard to do), or keeping
>the old version around for legacy use.  After all, if they support
>Python for customers, they presumably are interested in and somewhat
>responsible for keeping the customers' applications functional when
>they do such an upgrade.

For how long?  I just checked on Panix, which I believe is considered to
be a well-run hosting company, and they don't have Perl4.
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