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On 30/12/2013 22:38, Ethan Furman wrote:
> On 12/30/2013 01:29 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>> On 30/12/2013 20:49, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>> On Mon, 30 Dec 2013 19:41:44 +0000, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>>>
>>>> http://alexgaynor.net/2013/dec/30/about-python-3/ may be of interest to
>>>> some of you.
>>>
>>> I don't know whether to thank you for the link, or shout at you for
>>> sending eyeballs to look at such a pile of steaming bullshit.
>>
>> http://nuitka.net/posts/re-about-python-3.html is a response.
>
> Wow -- another steaming pile!  Mark, are you going for a record?  ;)
>
> --
> ~Ethan~

I wasn't, but I am now 
http://blog.startifact.com/posts/alex-gaynor-on-python-3.html. "The 
Python core developers somewhat gleefully slammed the door shut on 
Python 2.8 back in 2011, though.", which refers to PEP 404 which I 
mentioned a month or so ago.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence