evaluation question

[rbowman]

On Thu, 2 Feb 2023 09:31:46 -0000 (UTC), Muttley wrote:


> Yeah ok  But the ancestors of penguins didn't wake up one morning, flap
> their wings and fall out the tree, it happened gradually. Python2 syntax
> could have been retained for X versions of 3 just as C++ keeps old stuff
> until its eventually deprecated them removed.

Isn't that prolonging the agony? I had some 2.7 scripts I had to move to 
3. It wasn't that painful and I learned the new syntax. Being lazy if they 
still worked I would have kept using 2.7 syntax until someday it really 
went away.

MS did it big time with VB .NET. I'm sure there still are people 
maintaining and extending old-style VB until it ceases to work altogether. 
Then they'll be faced with the same learning curve most people suffered 
through 20 years ago.