Steve Holden <st...@holdenweb.com> writes: > Kindly confine your debate to the facts and keep the snide remarks to > yourself. Like it or not Python 3 is the future, and unladen swallow's > recent announcement that they would target only Python 3 represented a > ground-breaking advance for the language.
My take on things is that doing unladen swallow really "right" will require yet more incompatible changes; i.e., the result will either still leave quite a bit of performance on the table, or else it won't be compatible with the current specification of Python 3 and they'll presumably have to call it Python 4. And if Python 4 is as good as I believe it could possibly be, then it might get wide acceptance before Python 3 really has all that much uptake. If I have to accept incompatibility anyway, and Python 4 gives huge improvements while Python 3's improvements are tiny or moderate, why not skip over Python 3? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
