On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Franck Ditter <fra...@ditter.org> wrote:
> Pardon my noobness (?) but why is there a 2.x and 3.x development > teams working concurrently in Python ? I hardly saw that in other > languages. Which one should I choose to start with, to cope with > the future ? Isn't 3.x supposed to extend 2.y ? > This situation is very strange... > Thanks for your explanations... > > franck > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > Actually, has there ever been a language with a substantial userbase that didn't ever have two (or more) versions at the same time? C has, C++ has, FORTRAN has, perl has, java has... I believe user migrations are just kind of part of being a computer language. That's a significant part of why code doesn't maintain itself.
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