Paul McGuire wrote: > On Nov 17, 9:37 am, Wade Leftwich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm about halfway through Charles Stross' excellent new novel, >> "Halting State". It's set in Edinburgh in the year 2018, and one of >> the main characters is a game programmer whose primary language is >> something called "Python 3000". > > I should hope that by 2018, Python 4000 would be more cutting-edge. > Or is the protagonist struggling with backward-compatibility with a > Python version that would be nearly 10 years old already?
I think it was just a conservative guess that Python 3000 would be out by then. Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
