On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 2:55 PM, rjf <fate...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Monday, July 25, 2016 at 9:01:47 AM UTC-7, Volker Braun wrote: >> A language that did not change in the last 20 years is dead, plain and >> simple. > [...] Just wondering if, at the > outset, one would > again choose Python, knowing that there would be a requirement to > continually rewrite stuff > to be compatible with the latest version.
I chose Python in 2004 for Sage, after looking at many options. I absolutely definitely would chose Python again. That choice in 2004 was good, and has turned out far, far *better* than I expected, and I have zero regrets for having made it. -- William -- William (http://wstein.org) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
