When will Python 3 be fully deployed

[Roy Smith]

In article <hgll51$cv0$1 at panix5.panix.com>, aahz at pythoncraft.com (Aahz) 
wrote:

> Looking back over the years, after I learned Python I realized that I
> never really had enjoyed programming before.

That's a sad commentary.  Python is fun to use, but surely there are other 
ways you can enjoy programming?

The first thing I learned how to program was an HP-9810 
(http://www.hpmuseum.org/hp9810.htm).  I had LOADS of fun with that.  Then 
I learned BASIC (using my high school's ASR-33 hookup to a HP-3000 a couple 
of towns away).  Lots of fun there too.

Then came Fortran.  I guess I had fun with that, at least in the beginning.  
I did a bunch of assembler.  Some of it was fun (pdp-11, 6800), some of it 
was not (pdp-10, IBM-1130).  Lisp was fun for a while, but I never really 
got into it.

C was fun at the beginning, but quickly became a drag.  C++ was was evil 
and horrible at the beginning.  As opposed to now, when I'm somewhat of an 
expert in it, and it's still evil and horrible.

Learning PostScript was blast!  One of the true epiphanies of my 
programming career was hooking a video terminal up to the RS-232 port on an 
Apple LaserWriter, typing a few lines of PostScript at it, and watching a 
page come out with a square drawn on it.

Everybody should learn PostScript.  People think of it as just some 
document printing thing, but it's a real (Turing-complete) programming 
language.  Not just that, but it's a fun language to learn, and lets you 
explore some corners of the language design space which most people never 
see.  Go forth and learn PostScript!

Learning Java was about as much fun as kissing your sister.

I'm sure I've left a few out, but the point is there are plenty of ways to 
have fun programming besides Python.