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Guido and Bruce Eckel Discuss Python 3000
Phoe6 writes "Leading author and programmer, Bruce Eckel, posted some of his concerns on Python 3000 stating that the Python community is failing to address some of the important issues with this major, backward incompatible release. Problems he mentions are concurrency support on multi-core CPUs, easy deployment support, and a standardized user interface, amongst others. He expresses his dissatisfaction at the post titled "Python 3K or Python 2.9?. Guido van Rossum addresses the concerns in a very pragmatic way with his response to Bruce Eckel and calls for more developers to contribute to Python to improve it further. Bruce Eckel concludes with his thoughts that he wants his favorite language to be better with his reply to Guido's reply."
Well if one of the incompatibilities is getting rid of the goddamn significant whitespace I'm all behind it. It might even encourage me to give the language a chance. If it weren't for Civ IV I would have never used it for anything. A good slashdot poll would be how many people haven't even bothered with the language because of "the whitespace thing".
Yeah, but then you have to use Perl, and then you're just an asshole.