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jacquesm • yesterday at 8:02 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

Roughly the time when Guido stopped fighting the hordes. The hordes won, wrested the language away from its creator and now they own the pieces. 2 to 3 was the worst possible way a language has ever been upgraded bar none. Hilariously, even today Python 2 persists in many places because of this.


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rspeele • yesterday at 8:05 PM

> 2 to 3 was the worst possible way a language has ever been upgraded bar none

Perl 6?

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dist-epoch • yesterday at 9:06 PM

Guido wrested himself by accepting the stupid := operator against the huge opposition.

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