No new features, no improvements, nothing -- just the same language, for a decade.
No you are not alone. But you are minority. Majority sees the language not as a tool to solve specific problems, but as a goal, i.e. a way to chase its own tail endlessly. Hence the rudderless pursuit of new. The whole industry is in ADD mode - they moment they create something useful, they discard it and start a new quest.
Projects which never improve get replaced in a few years by new projects which did things better, and by other old projects which improved.
This is not ADD, this is not rudderless. This is preferring actively maintained and improved things over old crap that never gets fixed
Try ANSI C then!
Re:Extend Python 2.7 life till 2020
by raverbashing on Sunday April 13, 2014 @04:53PM
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I heard Pascal is all the rage nowadays
Or a good, supported, still used and very stable language: Fortran.
Re:Extend Python 2.7 life till 2020
by dragonwriter on Monday April 14, 2014 @01:24PM
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Fortran's most recent standard (Fortran 2008, adopted as an ISO standard in September 2010) was actually adopted more recently than the 2.7 release of Python, so, arguably, Python 2.x has been static for longer than Fortran.
(Obviously, if you said, e.g., Fortran 77, the story would be different.)
Yeah. Actually, sarcasm aside, there's nothing wrong about using those languages at all.
The only pain point is Pascal's lack of a nice-sized community (and thus libraries, support for modern systems etc) nowadays.
If you can live with that, then by all means stick to 2.7 until your Red Hat support contract expires. If not, consider switching to 3.x.