Paul McGuire pisze: >> 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?
Or, the author questions availability of P3k in 2008. It's not that hard to believe, since Python 3000 was a mythical monster (not even like Perl 6) until recently. If the book was written around 2005 or even 2004... -- Jarek Zgoda http://zgodowie.org/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
