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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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