John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There's always the possiblity that Python 3 won't happen. Look at > what happened with Perl 6. That's been talked about for > seven years now. The user base just wasn't interested. > Perl 5 was good enough, and users migrated to PHP for the > little stuff and other languages for the bigger stuff. > As Wikipedia says, "As of 2007, Perl 6 was still under development, > with no planned completion date."
I like to think PyPy will replace CPython as the main Python implementation. Python 3.0 can then fork the language fairly radically, like C++ vs C (ok, not so attractive an example) or Scheme vs Lisp. Both dialects would stay active. It seems to me that the flavor of Python programming has changed significantly over the past few releases. That trend will likely continue and even accelerate. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list