April 7, 2013
8:11 a.m.
On 07/04/13 17:52, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote:
If they never migrate on the premises of python 3 being a better language what does it say about python 3?
Very little. People stick with languages for all sorts of reasons, including: - It's what I know - I don't like change - That's what the client insists on - That's what my boss insists on - That's what the vendor provides - That's what my web host provides - I really love language X, but I need this *one* library that's only available on language Y, so I'm stuck I stuck with Python 1.5 for seven or eight years, and didn't migrate to Python 2 until 2.3. Why? Because that's what came standard on my Linux distro of choice. -- Steven