I strongly dislike Python 3

[Stephen Hansen]

On 6/27/10 7:55 PM, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Terry Reedy<tjreedy at udel.edu>  writes:
>> Python3 is about finishing transitions. The last stage in a transition
>> that replaces something old with something new is to remove the old,..
>
> Main problem is that by the time Python3 has stopped being disruptive,
> Python4 will be underway.  Python3 is incompatible enough with Python2
> to cause hassle and headaches, but not incompatible enough for the
> benefits to be more than slight.  So making more radical changes will
> require undergong the transition and disruption twice.  I think it would
> have been better to just do it once.

There's no reason to assume Python 4 will be anything like Python 3 was 
that I'm aware of. In fact, I'd bet large bunches of money that it will 
be backwards compatible and evolutionary: a major release doesn't -have- 
to be extremely disruptive.

Considering a couple people on Py-dev seemed (IIRC!) to object to the 
entire idea of a 2.10 from my lurking on the principle that its invalid 
(even if a lot of software don't treat version numbers as decimals, but 
just separate fields), it wouldn't surprise me that as we continue along 
with set releases of Python, 3.9 will roll around and 4.0 will come 
next, without it being some massive shift again. Not that it might not 
bring fun and interesting new mind-reading capabilities, but I'm not 
sure I see that there needs to be another Major Event. At least, not so 
soon as 4.0.

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