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Re:Python 2.7 Retirement Countdown by Svenstaro on Saturday May 28, 2016 @08:11PM (#11794173)
Your C code might still work but are you not relying on any libraries which might have been updated in 15 years in a non-backwards compatible way and thus broken your build?
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Re:Python 2.7 Retirement Countdown by CJefferson on Monday May 30, 2016 @07:03AM (#11800703)
It's not perfect, I'll admit.

I'm probably in a special area -- algorithms research. I tend not to use many libraries, and I'm often taking code written 10-20 years ago and wanting to get it working. The code is often VERY complicated, and I don't really want to reimplement it.

Finally (and probably most importantly) I don't care about security holes, I'm not going to run this code on malicious input.

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