Choosing Python

[John Salerno]

adaworks at sbcglobal.net wrote:

> One of the many things I like about Ada is that it is the same wherever
> you use it.   Python seems to be that way too.   Java started out that way.
> It was the intention for Java to be more portable than it is.   I have heard
> that Java was released before the developers were finished designing it.
> That would account for some of the upheaval in the language.   I do know
> of one set of software systems that has simply stopped working after the
> initial release of Java was revised.  The appliation was versioned it out
> of compliance.

When Python 3.0 comes out, there will be some backwards incompatibility, 
but I doubt this will be a huge factor. It might just take some time 
before everyone switches to it.