python 3's adoption

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Tue Jan 26 21:09:53 EST 2010


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alex23 wrote:
> "Alf P. Steinbach" <al... at start.no> wrote:
>> Actually not, IMHO. All it does is is to provide incompatibility. They forgot
>> Ronald Reagan's old maxim: if it don't need fixin', don't fix it.
> [...]
>> Probably there must have been some rationale, but to put it bluntly removing the
>> comparator is more like moronic than pythonic.
> 
> So in both cases, you haven't put any effort into researching why
> these decisions were made, but you're happy to jump to conclusions
> about the intelligence of the implementer(s) while regularly trotting
> out complaints of ad hominem attacks against yourself.
> 
> The saddest part of all is you seem to consider yourself some kind of
> educator.

<snort/> ;-)

regards
 Steve
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