On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 3:55 AM Avi Gross <avigr...@verizon.net> wrote: > Back to seriousness. I do not understand any suggestions that the python > language will go away any time soon. It will continue to evolve and sometimes > that evolution may introduce incompatibilities so earlier versions may have > to stop being supported. In many recent polls I keep seeing Python getting an > increasing share of programs written for all kinds of purposes. Of course, > there will be competition from other languages and new ones will arise. I > also see no reason any one person needs to steer the evolution indefinitely. > Unrestricted growth is bad but as the world advances, some growth is a good > idea. Bad analogy, but snakes do tend to shed their skin periodically as they > grow. >
Python tried to shed its skin, but I don't think the project really got anywhere, and I think it's been shelved (last commit was in March 2017). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shed_Skin https://github.com/shedskin/shedskin ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
