Re:Python 2.7.18, the last release of Python 2
by philwelch on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @01:57PM
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It’s not like C is the only programming language to have never broken backwards compatibility, or that conflating byte arrays and strings is as dangerous as buffer overflow.
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Re:Python 2.7.18, the last release of Python 2
by kerkeslager on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @04:13AM
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You're right, but it's the oldest that you mentioned, which is why it has the most serious signs of age. C originated 50 years ago: give Python 50 years of development without breaking any backwards compatibility and you'd have a programming language with many of the same kinds of problems.