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[OT] Re: Java ME or SE?

From Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer, comp.sys.raspberry-pi
Subject [OT] Re: Java ME or SE?
Date 2014-11-10 13:57 -0500
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On 11/10/2014 11:48 AM, cl@isbd.net wrote:
> Gordon Levi <gordon@address.invalid> wrote:
>> Microsoft did to me with Visual Basic classic. They made all my VB
>> programs obsolete. Van Rossum released Python 3 which is not backwards
>> compatible with Python 2!
>
> ... but it's fairly close.  You can't expect a language (or anything
> else) to progress for ever without some incompatibility with earlier
> versions.  Even within the 2.x tree there are minor incompatibilities.
>
> If you write code in good style for Python 2.7 it will quite often
> work in 3.x as well.

     "Write Once, Run Somewhere?"

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Java ME or SE? Gordon Levi <gordon@address.invalid> - 2014-11-09 00:58 +1100
  Re: Java ME or SE? Knute Johnson <eternal@knutejohnson.com> - 2014-11-08 09:27 -0800
  Re: Java ME or SE? Doug McIntyre <merlyn@dork.geeks.org> - 2014-11-08 16:17 -0600
    Re: Java ME or SE? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2014-11-08 17:38 -0500
      Re: Java ME or SE? Gordon Levi <gordon@address.invalid> - 2014-11-09 15:51 +1100
  Re: Java ME or SE? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2014-11-08 17:42 -0500
  Re: Java ME or SE? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2014-11-08 18:11 -0800
    Re: Java ME or SE? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2014-11-09 11:51 +0000
    Re: Java ME or SE? Gordon Henderson <gordon+usenet@drogon.net> - 2014-11-09 12:36 +0000
      Re: Java ME or SE? alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2014-11-09 13:28 +0000
        Re: Java ME or SE? stephen@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2014-11-10 10:00 +0000
    Re: Java ME or SE? Gordon Levi <gordon@address.invalid> - 2014-11-11 01:41 +1100
      Re: Java ME or SE? cl@isbd.net - 2014-11-10 16:48 +0000
        [OT] Re: Java ME or SE? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-11-10 13:57 -0500
      Re: Java ME or SE? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2014-11-10 21:15 +0000
        Re: Java ME or SE? Kees Theunissen <theuniss@rijnh.nl> - 2014-11-10 23:51 +0100
          Re: Java ME or SE? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2014-11-11 00:37 +0000
            Re: Java ME or SE? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-11-10 20:11 -0500
              Re: Java ME or SE? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-11-10 20:45 -0500
          Re: Java ME or SE? Morten Reistad <first@last.name> - 2014-11-11 07:00 +0100
            Re: Java ME or SE? alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2014-11-11 09:46 +0000

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