Python 3 put-downs: What's the point?

[Gregor Horvath]

Am Sun, 04 Jul 2010 18:51:54 -0500
schrieb Tim Chase <python.list at tim.thechases.com>:

> I think it's the same venting of frustration that caused veteran 
> VB6 developers to start calling VB.Net "Visual Fred" -- the 
> language was too different and too non-backwards-compatible.
> 

VB6 -> VB.NET and Python 2 -> 3 is not a valid comparison.

VB6 and VB.NET are totally different languages and technologies, with
some similarity in syntax. This is not true for Python 2->3. 
This is an healthy organic language growth, not an abandon of a
language.

--
Greg