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Well, if you were and are staying on Python 2.7, you are committing to anywhere from 6 (if you start now) to 10 (if you started day of 2.7.0 release) years of a

Well, if you were and are staying on Python 2.7, you are committing to anywhere from 6 (if you start now) to 10 (if you started day of 2.7.0 release) years of a frozen, non-evolving language. No new features, no improvements, nothing -- just the same language, for a decade. If you can live with that, then by all means stick to 2.7 until your Red Hat support contract expires. If not, consider switching to 3.x.

calroc 13y ago
No new features, no improvements, nothing -- just the same language, for a decade. Am I alone in being excited by this? I am figuratively drooling over such stability.
- coldtea 13y ago
  Try ANSI C then!
  - raverbashing 13y ago
    I heard Pascal is all the rage nowadays Or a good, supported, still used and very stable language: Fortran.
    - coldtea 13y ago
      Yeah. Actually, sarcasm aside, there's nothing wrong about using those languages at all. The only pain point is Pascal's lack of a nice-sized community (and thus libraries, support for modern systems etc) nowadays.
    - shitgoose 13y ago
      Fortran=Math. Wherever there are projects solving math problems, they are running Fortran code. Or at best code ported from Fortran libraries.
    - dragonwriter 13y ago
      Fortran's most recent standard (Fortran 2008, adopted as an ISO standard in September 2010) was actually adopted more recently than the 2.7 release of Python, so, arguably, Python 2.x has been static for longer than Fortran. (Obviously, if you said, e.g., Fortran 77, the story would be different.)
- shitgoose 13y ago
  No you are not alone. But you are minority. Majority sees the language not as a tool to solve specific problems, but as a goal, i.e. a way to chase its own tail endlessly. Hence the rudderless pursuit of new. The whole industry is in ADD mode - they moment they create something useful, they discard it and start a new quest.
  - pekk 13y ago
    Projects which never improve get replaced in a few years by new projects which did things better, and by other old projects which improved. This is not ADD, this is not rudderless. This is preferring actively maintained and improved things over old crap that never gets fixed

calroc 13y ago

No new features, no improvements, nothing -- just the same language, for a decade. Am I alone in being excited by this? I am figuratively drooling over such stability.

coldtea 13y ago
Try ANSI C then!
- raverbashing 13y ago
  I heard Pascal is all the rage nowadays Or a good, supported, still used and very stable language: Fortran.
  - coldtea 13y ago
    Yeah. Actually, sarcasm aside, there's nothing wrong about using those languages at all. The only pain point is Pascal's lack of a nice-sized community (and thus libraries, support for modern systems etc) nowadays.
  - shitgoose 13y ago
    Fortran=Math. Wherever there are projects solving math problems, they are running Fortran code. Or at best code ported from Fortran libraries.
  - dragonwriter 13y ago
    Fortran's most recent standard (Fortran 2008, adopted as an ISO standard in September 2010) was actually adopted more recently than the 2.7 release of Python, so, arguably, Python 2.x has been static for longer than Fortran. (Obviously, if you said, e.g., Fortran 77, the story would be different.)
shitgoose 13y ago
No you are not alone. But you are minority. Majority sees the language not as a tool to solve specific problems, but as a goal, i.e. a way to chase its own tail endlessly. Hence the rudderless pursuit of new. The whole industry is in ADD mode - they moment they create something useful, they discard it and start a new quest.
- pekk 13y ago
  Projects which never improve get replaced in a few years by new projects which did things better, and by other old projects which improved. This is not ADD, this is not rudderless. This is preferring actively maintained and improved things over old crap that never gets fixed