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On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 2:44 AM, Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2016, at 10:40, Ian Kelly wrote:
>> Besides, you're forgetting that the whole point of having so many
>> backwards incompatible changes in Python 3 in the first place was to
>> get them out of the way and not have to do them further into the
>> future. Python 4.0 has never been planned to be anything more than an
>> incremental release like Python 2.0, and AIUI the only reason any of
>> the core devs are even talking about Python 4 at this point in time is
>> because Guido doesn't like "3.10" as a version number.
>
> I still think we should just retroactively declare 3.5 to be python 5,
> and then keep going with python 6, 7, etc...

http://dirtsimple.org/2004/12/python-is-not-java.html

ChrisA