On 6/27/10 6:09 PM, MRAB wrote:
Terry Reedy wrote:
Another would have been to add but never remove anthing, with the
consequence that Python would become increasingly difficult to learn
and the interpreter increasingly difficult to maintain with
volunteers. I think 2.7 is far enough in that direction.
[snip]
It's clear that Guido's time machine is limited in how far it can travel
in time, because if it wasn't then Python 1 would've been more like
Python 3 and the changes would not have been necessary! :-)
I'm pretty sure he wrote the Time Machine in Python 1.4, or maybe 1.3?
Either way, its well established that a time machine can't go back in
time any farther then the moment its created.
I don't at all remember why, don't even vaguely understand the physics
behind it, but Morgan Freeman said it on TV, so its true.
So he couldn't go back and fix 1.0, physics won't allow him. So we're
stuck with the Py3k break. :)
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