[Web-SIG] PEP 444 (aka Web3)

[Ty Sarna]

On Sep 16, 2010, at 2:55 PM, Massimo Di Pierro wrote:

>> My experience in various
>> communities suggests that naming the new totally-bw-incompat thing the
>> same as the old thing weakens both the new thing and the old thing,
> 
> I share the same experience.

Interesting. Do you feel that Python 3.x should have been named something other than Python?

I think that would rather have weakened both 3.x and 2.x by suggesting a fork, placing the two in competition, when the goal was to have one supersede the other, as is also the case here.