A modest proposal (was: Comment on PEP-0238)

[Ben Wolfson]

On Mon, 9 Jul 2001 22:21:59 +0100, philh at comuno.freeserve.co.uk (phil hunt)
wrote:

>I suggest we continue to name the existing language "Python" and
>the new developments by called under a different name ("SuperPython"
>or "CP4A" possibly). That way, everyone gets what they want.
>
>The new SuperPython would be free to experiment with radical new
>ideas -- including changing the case-sensitivity, for example. And
>the old, exisiting Python would be guaranteed to evolve in a way 
>that doesn't break existing code, without a very very good reason.

Instead of SuperPython, it could be called Python 3000, but Guido has
already decided against that.

-- 
Barnabas T. Rumjuggler
No man can run so fast that he can escape his own past's projectile vomit.