Do you see FIOC 3000 ever taking off as the de-factoFIOC standard, or we'll have around 2.x forever? I know that there's code that won't be updated, it's a shame having to maintain the older branch for ages to come. Shame on you, Guido.
It also worries me that not much stuff is getting updated at all, and even now stuff popping out right now is written for 2.x.
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Much of what was removed/added to 2.x was so obvious that I knew that it was wrong before I even got myself to learn Python properly, just by looking at Python programs.
Guido may be a good VM engineer, but he is verily a shitty language designer. And a retard.
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Anonymous2009-05-27 17:04
>>3 Guido may be a good VM engineer
Aren't there several better implementations?
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Anonymous2009-05-27 17:22
what's the point of 3.0? OCD? Harder for beginners?
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Let's be honest, here: unladen-swallow is much more likely to produce something that's actually less shit than cpython. pypy is a pipe dream and everyone knows it.
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Anonymous2009-05-28 0:52
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Which brings us to our next discussion point; LLVM: awesome or awesome?
Don't think anyone will migrate to Python9000 any time soon. Especially Linux platforms often have a shitload of Python applications/libraries/dependencies. While some will probably upgrade in time (i.e. next millenium), some won't, so we are stuck with the old applications or have to move to something new... which obviously won't happen, since NEW THINGS TEND TO BREAK SHIT THAT WAS PREVIOUSLY WORKING.