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October 16, 2000
by stray 11y ago
October 16, 2000
- jasperry 11y agoJust googled it, it's the release date of Python 2.0.
- dagw 11y agoWhat was so unreasonable about 1.5? That was my first python and it worked perfectly fine.
- stray 11y agoOld style classes. No way to subclass built-in types. No metaclasses.
- dagw 11y agoSure, but non of those things made it a bad language, or where really unreasonable things to have left out.
- eru 11y agoFor me it's lack of lexical scoping.
- stray 11y agoThere is a big difference between unreasonable and bad. Python was always a good language because it was basically the same pseudocode we all scribbled on blackboards anyway -- with the added advantage that computers could execute it. I just found 1.x to be unreasonable. I also find 3.x unreasonable for unreasonable reasons.