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chewslast Tuesday at 7:30 PM4 repliesview on HN

It really speaks to how great the technical team can be. As crazy as it sounds Goldman Sacks and JP Morgan both maintained 2.7 Python as a core language until just a few years ago (yes, it's still used in production).


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lokartoday at 2:52 PM

I have run into other large (well known) financial companies on 2.x as well. They were using our old unsupported SDK and some long planned and communicated service API change broke them. They could not update to any recent SDK. I did gently point out their python version was 10+ years out of date.

mohamedkoubaatoday at 2:28 PM

Maybe the bank bailouts were a mistake

7bitlast Wednesday at 10:38 AM

Or insane

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