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Re: Java ME or SE?

From cl@isbd.net
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer, comp.sys.raspberry-pi
Subject Re: Java ME or SE?
Date 2014-11-10 16:48 +0000
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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.

-- 
Chris Green
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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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