Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Sender: wegge@huddi.jernurt.dk Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Python 3 is killing Python References: <57ajo9poljjre4c4ig0n0ss8kph8k78lp0@4ax.com> <5389cb53$0$29978$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <99b7b2a2-7521-42d7-a5a0-1a35d4d5b922@googlegroups.com> <53C4A454.9010600@gmail.com> From: Anders Wegge Keller Date: 15 Jul 2014 17:02:30 +0200 Message-ID: <87d2d6d5rt.fsf@huddi.jernurt.dk> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Lines: 15 Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.239.202.162 X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=4]cdBMogRgX[eoV[BRG`:]YSB=nbEKnk[C`AI=P5F4CR=anD=lJfodR88 writes: > I can only think of two widely used languages in the last decade where > there was this type of major break in binary compatibility: Perl and > Visual Basic. Lua 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3 are all incompatible to some extent. It's debatable how widely used Lua is as a stand-alone language, but the usage is pretty widespread; it's just mostly concealed inside another application. -- /Wegge Leder efter redundant peering af dk.*,linux.debian.*