... I mean if you want to compare that it had exactly same problem so it is another evidence it's not something specific to Python, it's just utterly terrible w

... I mean if you want to compare that it had exactly same problem so it is another evidence it's not something specific to Python, it's just utterly terrible way to go ahead. Only difference is that they noticed it's a bad idea midway and went back to developing Perl 5 And I still can write "use v5.8" in my Perl script and write script that works in Centos 5 instance from 2007, if I needed to do something on legacy system, and it will work the same on latest Perl. > because at the time Perl was more popular than Python. I don't believe that was true at the time as P6 took like decade to decide on semantics and only then the implementations started to happen. More existing code, sure, but much of the web dev moved to PHP/Ruby and many other things to Python. And unlike Py3 it was initially also much slower than P5, making migration kinda worthless.