long-term release schedule?

[Yan Weng]

> > Ray Smith wrote:
> and my question was ...
>
> If bug fixes where the only changes to "core Python language" in the next
5-10
> years would Python still be a good choice?
>
> I pose that question because I suspect the answer is yes, since alot of
the
> added value of Python is now coming from the external projects.

It's hard to predict.  A lot concepts are introduced to make programming
easier in the past 10 years. I suspect there is an end. How easy is easy? :)

> Open Source is still considered a risky choose by most managers and I have
to
> be very careful how I attempt to introduce it here.  I have successfully
> introudused a couple of small open source tools, but I'm basically going
for
> the big one now and planning to use Python for a large long term project
> (I've just got to convince management now ... which won't be easy).
Agree.

Best regards,

- Yan
yweng at cs.uoregon.edu
http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/~yweng/