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This topic has been beaten to death by impatient people who have no recollection or knowledge of the history of language adoption.

• sophacles 17y ago
  Further, people like GVR say things like "In a decade we figure python 3 will be pretty widespread", and "Python 3 isn't really ready for primetime yet, don't use it". Is it really a groundbreaking blog post to mention that people aren't using it now, and that it doesn't work quite the way author expected. Of course the original author also claimed Python 3 is attempting to maintain some backwards compatibility based on a module which interfaces a system call. And then complains that it should just be a clean break from the past. And after that complains that the new thing isnt the old thing. If that confuses you, don't worry I'm confused too.
• kwantam 17y ago
  Right. Anyway, we first have to settle the question "will LISP ever get critical adoption?" :) (I love LISP. I'm trying to point out that "critical adoption" doesn't seem to be a very important or measurable thing.)
  • adamc 17y ago
    The folks in comp.lang.lisp seem critical enough to me.
• fnid 17y ago
  Do you have any resources for learning about such history? I'd be quite an interesting read I think.
  • teilo 17y ago
    In this case I am my own resource, having been a programmer for some 25 years, and observed the slow, but steady adoption of many languages. The wishlist for 3.0, PEP 3100, was created in August, 2004. PEP 3000 was created on April 5, 2006, and marked the beginning of the development process. A year and a half later, 3.0 was released, and it hasn't even been a year since.