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Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Sat Mar 27 16:58:03 EDT 2021


On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 7:46 AM Avi Gross via Python-list
<python-list at python.org> wrote:
>
> What are the odds, Chris, that rewriting an existing project written in an
> older version of a language like python FROM SCRATCH into any other existing
> language, would be easier than updating it to the same language which made
> fairly specific changes and has some guidelines how to update?
>

Exactly. Yet people keep saying, oh, Python 3 is so hard, I can't
possibly migrate from Python 2 to Python 3, it'll be easier to rewrite
it all in <some other language>...

I've completely stopped believing any such claims.

ChrisA


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