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Like with any other system where some old version just won't go away, the ones who absolutely will not switch to Python 3 will eventually (literally) go extinct
by Lev1a 9y ago
Like with any other system where some old version just won't go away, the ones who absolutely will not switch to Python 3 will eventually (literally) go extinct.
What we can do, as the people who live in the present, is educate programming/python newbies to use the newer/better Python 3, instead of clinging to something that will soon lose official support (for AFAIK good reasons).
- coldtea 9y ago>Like with any other system where some old version just won't go away, the ones who absolutely will not switch to Python 3 will eventually (literally) go extinct. And yet there are tons of lines on COBOL in active use today. What makes you think 2.7 code, which powers tons of businesses, is going anywhere?
- Lev1a 9y agoAt some point in the future the cost of maintenance vs. cost of rewriting/upgrading will be so much in favor of the latter that businesses will make the (correct) choice to "go with the times" instead of spending an ever increasing amount of money and time on maintaining a code base `x` years old written in a language not officially supported/extended for `y` years, experts for which are increasingly rare (and thus expensive).
- coldtea 9y agoIf they can find Cobol experts 50+ years after the original programs were written, they'll have no issue finding 2.7 experts 50+ years on, especially since 3 and 2.7 and more alike than different.