On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 1:42 AM, Steve D'Aprano <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > ... because this is > really just an excuse to do what they've wanted to do all along: use a > different language. > > Or because somebody in management heard from somebody on LinkedIn that they > heard on Facebook about something they read in some trade magazine about some > company that lost billions porting their Python 2.9 app to Python 3.0 and > besides everyone knows that Python 3 is a failure and Ruby on NodeJS is the > new > hot thing that everyone is using.
Yes, these are two all-too-common reasons. I have to confess that I dismissed both of them as irrational, but the truth is that they're both very real-world reasons. I stand corrected. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list