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That would imply that it actually finished, which is not obvious to me. The last time I found Python 2 code must have been a few months ago, and I'm not a regul

That would imply that it actually finished, which is not obvious to me. The last time I found Python 2 code must have been a few months ago, and I'm not a regular Python user. And that's kind of the problem: old code never just goes away. It lingers until you try to compile it and it fails.

eru 4y ago
Isn't that the same with old versions of eg C++?
- JohnFen 4y ago
  Old C++ code -- even very old C++ code -- still compiles fine with the latest C++ compilers. Old Python code does not. That's a huge, and critically important, difference.
  - eru 4y ago
    Yes, that's a big part of what's holding the evolution of C++.