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Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 22:05:17 +1000
Subject: Re: Why has python3 been created as a seperate language where there is still python2.7 ?
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On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Devin Jeanpierre
<jeanpierreda@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 7:02 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Much easier to simply say no.
>
> It's also easier to cease developing Python at all.
>
> By which I mean: just because something is hard doesn't mean it
> shouldn't be done. Lots of things Python does are hard, but they make
> users' lives easier. The question should probably be where developer
> effort is best spent, not where developers spend the least effort.

Of course, of course. Easier doesn't necessarily mean better. But
there's a much larger cost to this kind of backward compatibility than
many people realize.

ChrisA