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Sorry for this harsh statement, but Guido should do an internship at Theo of OpenBSD. We can't just decide to move backward to support programmers stupidity.
by takriz 15y ago
Sorry for this harsh statement, but Guido should do an internship at Theo of OpenBSD. We can't just decide to move backward to support programmers stupidity.
- mixmastamyk 15y agoIt'll help porting which will get momentum moving behind v3.
- njharman 15y agoI like OpenBSD. But, Python is not OpenBSD, it has a different set of core values. Pragmatism being high up that list. It is written by and for pragmatic programmers. Not purists, not idealists. It is stupid to violate core values.
- batista 15y agoThese Python programmers could potentially run circles in smartness around you or Theo. Or not. But it has nothing to do with the back-porting under discussion. Not desiring to undertake a big code changing effort != stupidity. Especially when you aren't even paid to do it. Actually, considering that you would then have a patched mess of a codebase, or have to support to codebases for users of older Python versions, it's actually the smart thing to do. And it's not like OpenBSD ever got anywhere --if you insist of using it as an example that "not moving backwards ever" is a plus. What's its adoption percentage again?
- icebraining 15y agoIt doesn't actually move backward in any meaningful way, it just makes the parser ignore a (now) extraneous character.