Blog "about python 3"

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Sun Jan 5 08:10:26 EST 2014


On 31/12/2013 09:53, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Mark Lawrence wrote:
>
>> http://blog.startifact.com/posts/alex-gaynor-on-python-3.html.
>
> I quote:
>
> "...perhaps a brave group of volunteers will stand up and fork Python 2, and
> take the incremental steps forward. This will have to remain just an idle
> suggestion, as I'm not volunteering myself."
>
> I expect that as excuses for not migrating get fewer, and the deadline for
> Python 2.7 end-of-life starts to loom closer, more and more haters^W
> Concerned People will whine about the lack of version 2.8 and ask for
> *somebody else* to fork Python.
>

Should the "somebody else" fork Python, in ten (ish) years time the 
Concerned People will be complaining that they can't port their code to 
Python 4 and will "somebody else" please produce version 2.9.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence




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