Using Python 2

[Chris Angelico]

On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 1:42 AM, Steve D'Aprano
<steve+python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> ... because this is
> really just an excuse to do what they've wanted to do all along: use a
> different language.
>
> Or because somebody in management heard from somebody on LinkedIn that they
> heard on Facebook about something they read in some trade magazine about some
> company that lost billions porting their Python 2.9 app to Python 3.0 and
> besides everyone knows that Python 3 is a failure and Ruby on NodeJS is the new
> hot thing that everyone is using.

Yes, these are two all-too-common reasons. I have to confess that I
dismissed both of them as irrational, but the truth is that they're
both very real-world reasons. I stand corrected.

ChrisA