John Nagle wrote: > jmDesktop wrote: > >> If I continue in Python 2.5.x, am I making a mistake? Is it really >> that different? > > No. It may never happen, either. The Perl crowd tried > something like this, Perl 6, which was announced in 2000 and still > hasn't come out. The C++ standards committee has been working on a > revision of C++ since the 1990s, and that hasn't happened either. > > The general consensus is that Python 3.x isn't much of an > improvement over the existing language. There's just not much > demand for it.
The difference is that Guido learnt from the mistakes of Perl 6 and set much more realistic (moderate) goals for Python 3.0. Unlike others, I think that Python 3.0 will get popular sooner than you think. Imagine: - you're the developer of an Open Source Python library - for fame and glory, you port it to Python 3.0 - you realize that maintaining two branches is cumbersome - Python 3.0 becomes first class - Users switch to ... -- Gerhard -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
