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Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> writes:

> No company that I work for is using python 3 - they just have too much
> of an investment in a python 2 code base to switch.

There are many large companies still using FORTRAN and COBOL because of
a large investment in those languages, which are far more outdated than
Python 2. What's your point?

> I'm just saying.

Ah, so no point that you're willing to defend, then.

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