Excellent sci-fi novel featuring Python

[Simon Brunning]

On Nov 17, 2007 4:25 PM, Paul McGuire <ptmcg at austin.rr.com> wrote:
> On Nov 17, 9:37 am, Wade Leftwich <wleftw... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm about halfway through Charles Stross' excellent new novel,
> > "Halting State". It's set in Edinburgh in the year 2018, and one of
> > the main characters is a game programmer whose primary language is
> > something called "Python 3000".
>
> I should hope that by 2018, Python 4000 would be more cutting-edge.
> Or is the protagonist struggling with backward-compatibility with a
> Python version that would be nearly 10 years old already?

If the whole 3.n series is called "Python 3000", then it's very
plausible. I can see Python 3.7 or 3.8 being the latest version in
2018.

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