Am Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:32:13 -0500 schrieb Tim Chase <python.l...@tim.thechases.com>:
> On 07/05/2010 02:50 AM, Gregor Horvath wrote: > > Am Sun, 04 Jul 2010 18:51:54 -0500 > > schrieb Tim Chase<python.l...@tim.thechases.com>: > > > >> I think it's the same venting of frustration that caused veteran > >> VB6 developers to start calling VB.Net "Visual Fred" -- the > >> language was too different and too non-backwards-compatible. > >> > > > > VB6 -> VB.NET and Python 2 -> 3 is not a valid comparison. > > > > VB6 and VB.NET are totally different languages and technologies, > > with some similarity in syntax. This is not true for Python 2->3. > > This is an healthy organic language growth, not an abandon of a > > language. > > The quintessential example is Py3's breaking of Hello World. > It's a spectrum of language changes -- Visual Fred just happens > to be MUCH further down the same spectrum having more dramatic > changes. Only a subset of $OLD_VER (whether Py2 or VB6) code > will run unmodified under $NEW_VER (whether Py3 or VB.Net). It Don't you think that there is a really huge difference in an evolutionary development of a language with some well founded incompatibilities due to some muck outs on one side and and on the other side stopping the development of a language and replacing it with one derived from a completely different one and giving it a related name and syntax? And that such a big difference forbids any comparison, although there are some superficial similarities? -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
