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The first Python version, 0.9.0, was released on Feb 20, 1991
- musicale 6y agoPython was such a nice thing - then they punched everyone in the face with Python 3 by destroying backward compatibility. Making language designers happy while wasting millions of hours of language user time is the wrong trade-off.
- rsyring 6y agoPlease stop complaining about Python 3 already. Feel free to use and maintain Python 2 indefinitely. Most of the rest of us will move on since the conversions were not that hard and the improvements worth it.
- ThePadawan 6y agoUsers were given at least 6 years to switch over. That's not ripping the carpet from under them, that is lifting the carpet 50 times until users were standing at the very edge of the carpet, then removing the carpet gently.