[Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 3.0 final

[glyph at divmod.com]

On 08:51 pm, guido at python.org wrote:
>On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 12:19 PM,  <glyph at divmod.com> wrote:
>>I also don't think 3.0 is perfect, and five years on, there will be a
>>temptation to make more "just this once" incompatible changes.  Of 
>>course,
>>you've promised these changes won't be made, and *this* set of design
>>mistakes will be with us forever.  It would be nice if there were a 
>>way for
>>evolution to continue without another reboot of the world.

>Since one of your favorite themes is that your team is too small, I
>would like to reuse that idea. If we had as many Python core
>developers as Sun and IBM have working on Java, we could most likely
>have introduced all Python 3.0 features gradually, with compiler flags
>and __future__ imports to support different versions. But despite
>being a bit bigger than Twisted, we're still severely constrained by
>resources.

Ah, the dangers of over-editing.  I originally had a whole paragraph 
about how I understood that the Python dev team was also resource 
constrained, but I deleted it for brevity.  Now you see why my posts are 
so long! :)