On Sun, 10 Sep 2017 01:08 pm, Rick Johnson wrote: > Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >> The risk to Python will be whether the occasion is >> exploited by fanboys of competing programming languages. >> The migration from Python 2 might be to something else than >> Python 3 in some circles. > > That has been my observation as well.
It certainly has been. I still remember your panicked, "the sky is falling" posts terrified that unless we re-defined Python to your specifications, the entire Python community would rush to Ruby. That was, oh, ten or twelve years ago, if I remember correctly. How did that prediction work out for you? -- Steve “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list