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datakanyesterday at 10:27 PM2 repliesview on HN

It is 30+ years old with all the baggage you would expect. It’s very much a product of its time.


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9devyesterday at 10:39 PM

It’s not like that cannot be changed. Look at PHP, which managed to evolve brilliantly over the last decade and gets tons of things right now.

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randallsquaredyesterday at 10:51 PM

Python 3(000) was an opportunity to fix all the things, so in a sense, the modern Python is less than 20 years old.