Prothon Prototypes vs Python Classes

David MacQuigg dmq at gain.com
Tue Mar 30 16:25:06 EST 2004


On 30 Mar 2004 12:37:25 -0800, magnus at thinkware.se (Magnus Lyck?)
wrote:

>I don't think you need to worry. AFAIK Python 3 is the mythological
>if-I-could-turn-back-the-clock-and-undo-all-my-mistakes version
>of Python, which Guido probably won't have time to work with 
>until his son is big enough to help him. (He'll be 3 in November.)
>It will have little regard for backward compatibility, and if it
>does appear sooner than expected, you can expect Python 2.x to be
>maintaned in parallel for a long time.

Maybe Prothon will *become* Python 3.0  That could happen quicker than
migrating all the Python libraries to Prothon.  Open source is an
amazing phenomenon!

Nothing like a little kick-in-the-butt competition to stimulate
progress. :>)

-- Dave




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