On Nov 17, 2007 4:25 PM, Paul McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 17, 9:37 am, Wade Leftwich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm about halfway through Charles Stross' excellent new novel, > > "Halting State". It's set in Edinburgh in the year 2018, and one of > > the main characters is a game programmer whose primary language is > > something called "Python 3000". > > I should hope that by 2018, Python 4000 would be more cutting-edge. > Or is the protagonist struggling with backward-compatibility with a > Python version that would be nearly 10 years old already?
If the whole 3.n series is called "Python 3000", then it's very plausible. I can see Python 3.7 or 3.8 being the latest version in 2018. -- Cheers, Simon B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/ GTalk: simon.brunning | MSN: small_values | Yahoo: smallvalues -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list