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Python 3.0 To Be Backwards Incompatible

Posted by kdawson on from the it's-broke-jim dept.

Stony Stevenson writes "Organizations using Python will be affected in a major way by changes in store for the language over the course of the next twelve months, Linux.conf.au attendees were told this morning. The Python development community is working towards a new, backwards-incompatible version of the language, version 3.0, which is slated for release in early 2009. Anthony Baxter, the release manager for Python and a senior software engineer at Google Australia, said "We are going to break pretty much all the code. Pretty much every program will need changes." Baxter also added another tidbit for attendees, saying that Python accounts for around 15 percent of Google's code base."

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  1. Use by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Lisp

  2. #1 way to prevent adoption of new language version by mmeister · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This looks like a shoot yourself in the foot moment. I briefly read through the Py3K stuff and found it difficult to see what the true benefits were for creating this incompatibility. If they want to do this and have folks adopt it, they need to provide a COMPELLING SET OF REASONS for why they are making it incompatible.

    If you're going to make a language completely incompatible, you basically have created a NEW language.

  3. So, will it FINALLY have block structures? by nweaver · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Instead of the stupid "whitespace has semantic meaning", which Fs up editors, cut & paste, and code generators?

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  4. Re:It's a race by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Python, obviously. The perl fucktards are years away from releasing anything that anyone cares about.

  5. Re:Just rename it. by BigJClark · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Low flying 747. Completely missed the point. I'm not even going to quote Mark Twain on this one.

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  6. Re:It's a race by jellomizer · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And what did that do to perl... Nothing good. Perl was once a really big language use for almost every app out there. Then by the time from the move to perl 6 the apps went away and more Python Apps starting appearing.

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  7. Re:It's a race by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Wow. Talk about fucking stupid.

    Check out your statistics sometime perlfag, you might be surprised. Most of the real world got sick of waiting for Perl 6 a long time ago and moved to languages like Ruby and, yes, Python.

    Now how about you go back to jacking off to a printout of the last State of the Onion and leave the discussion to people who actually know what they're talking about? Oh right, this is Slashdot. Perlfag shitheads like you get modded UP in a hole like this. The whole site's like a kind of Bizarro World where anyone can spout off any bullshit they like for their precious karma points.

    I think I'll go back to visiting Digg, that's where Slashdot gets most of its interesting stories from now anyway.