Steve D'Aprano wrote: > Chris Angelico wrote: > But some of us can't resist the temptation to evangelise > about Python 3 :-)
An error that did not pass silently. Even when explicitly requested. > > Also, be completely honest here: how much work would it > > take for you to move your "millions of servers" from > > Python 2 to, say, PHP? or Ruby? or C? or JavaScript? Is > > any of those (or any write-in answer you wish) actually > > easier than porting to Python 3? > > Maybe not easier, but maybe there's some other payoff: > > - some poor, benighted folks just like Javascript or Ruby > better than Python (perhaps they were dropped on the head > as babies a few too many times *wink*) > > - maybe some companies have a glut of cheap PHP code- > monkeys they can throw at a problem, and shortage of > expensive Python rockstars who make unreasonable demands > like "decent working conditions" and "life-work balance"; I wonder what will happen if we replace "PHP code monkeys" with "immigrants", and "Python rockstars" with "Americans"? Hmm. Interesting. A Freudian Slip perhaps? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list