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Re:Sunsetting Python 2 by Kaiyou on Monday September 09, 2019 @11:09AM (#20918880)
Right, but in engineering it's kind of expected to get support for a version for at least 60 years. Software engineering is just really weird in that it moves so fast and nobody seems to care to break things.
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Re:Sunsetting Python 2 by ZWoz on Monday September 09, 2019 @11:52AM (#20919279)
They (in engineering general) aren't expected support something free though. Putting it another way: You can get you support with Python2, if you pay.
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Re:Sunsetting Python 2 by joshuamorton on Monday September 09, 2019 @11:49AM (#20919245)
What free things are supported for 60 years in engineering applications?

Name one.

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Re:Sunsetting Python 2 by greglindahl on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @01:42AM (#20925336)
Fairly ancient Fortran compiles OK in open source compilers. Not quite 60 years old, yet, but it'll be there soon.
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Re:Sunsetting Python 2 by TheRealKing on Thursday September 12, 2019 @01:31PM (#20954069)
It's already >65 years old. The 65th birthday was this summer 2019.
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