> a little pain now is preferable to a dead language Who said Python is dying? It's been flourishing since it came out. It almost killed Perl, almost became a

> a little pain now is preferable to a dead language Who said Python is dying? It's been flourishing since it came out. It almost killed Perl, almost became a de facto standard as a dynamic scripting language, and so many people just fell in love with it. What will actually kill Python is unjustified changes that break all existing code. Or, let's view it as a different language that's simply doomed like every other attempt to "fix" things that actually work. It's that simple: fixing things that work is a waste of time.