I strongly dislike Python 3
MRAB
python at mrabarnett.plus.com
Wed Jun 30 22:26:52 EDT 2010
John Nagle wrote:
> On 6/27/2010 1:09 PM, Martin v. Loewis wrote:
>>> I agree that there may be not much reason to port custom proprietary
>>> apps that are working fine and which would hardly benefit from, let
>>> alone need, and new Py3 features.
>>
>> In the long run, there will be a benefit: at some point in the future
>> (surely years from now), /usr/bin/python will be Python 3.
>
> I'd argue that the name of Python 3 should be consistently
> be "python3" in distributions. Python versions are going to have to
> coexist for most of the next decade, and this will avoid
> confusion.
>
> The 10th anniversary of the announcement of PERL 6 is coming
> up on July 19th, and it still hasn't displaced PERL 5 as the
> "primary" version.
>
Perl 6 is a lot of more different from Perl 5 than Python 3 is from
Python 2.
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