Is 3.0 worth breaking backward compatibility?

[Chris Mellon]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:21 PM, walterbyrd <walterbyrd at iname.com> wrote:
> On Dec 7, 12:35 pm, Andreas Waldenburger <geekm... at usenot.de> wrote:
>
>> Pleeeeze. Python 3 is shipping now, and so is 2.x, where x > 5. Python
>> 2 is going to be around for quite some time. What is everybody's
>> problem?
>
> A possible, potential, problem, could arise if you were using python
> 2.x, but some other code, that you wanted to include, was writen in
> python 3.x.

A possible, potential, problem, could arise if you were using [Java],
but some other code,
that you wanted to include, was writen in [Pascal].

Surely the software industry is doomed?