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Re:Why Is the Migration to Python 3 Taking So Long? by avisser on Thursday November 14, 2019 @05:39PM (#21540285)
Fair criticism. But shouldn't you be even more pissed that the Unicode release was botched and we're still talking about it more than 10 years after?

When I upgrade to a new version of C# ... nothing happens.

Backwards compatibility is what made Microsoft the company it is. I think Python deserves all the crap it gets for 2 vs 3.

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Re:Why Is the Migration to Python 3 Taking So Long? by gggmaster on Thursday November 14, 2019 @10:13PM (#21541924)
They have to be backwards-compatible to persuade people to pay for their proprietary products rather than switch to another vendor.
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Re:Why Is the Migration to Python 3 Taking So Long? by avisser on Friday November 15, 2019 @08:13AM (#21544455)
So you're saying backwards-compatibility is awesome. I agree.
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