On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:46:31 -0800, Beliavsky wrote: > I think the C and C++ committees also take backwards compatibility > seriously, in part because they know > that working programmers will ignore them if they break too much old > code.
While that's true, C++ compiler vendors, for example, take backwards compatibility significantly less seriously, it seems to me. A year or so ago, I tried compiling something I'd written for g++ 2, using a then-recent-ish g++ 3; it failed spectacularly. Likewise with Visual C++ 6 and a Visual C++ 2005. The suggestion that "working programmers" will reject python if a major version change introduces some backwards incompatibilities is not borne out by the experience of any other language I am aware of. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
