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Hi James,
I don't read "blaming" in George's words, just reasoning for a
personal decision.
Maybe I suffer from similar prejudice: I have the impression that
python programmers spend a lot of effort in trying to convince others
that python is a "good" choice. Why bother rather than let people make
their own decision?
Cheers,
Tim
On 09/12/2012 09:49 PM, James Stroud wrote:
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> On Sep 12, 2012, at 1:00 PM, George Sheldrick wrote:
>
>> It is the lack of compatibility between different versions
>> mentioned by Ethan that really put me off learning PYTHON.
>
>
> Python is backwards compatible. I have reams of code I wrote in
> python 2.3 that still works in 2.7 without modification.
>
> Also, python (aka python 2) and python 3000 (aka python 3) are
> considered two different languages. It's not reasonable to
> consider them one language and then complain that they are
> incompatible. Python 3 was created as a new language (and should be
> treated as such) precisely because it breaks compatibility with
> python 2. That was the intent of the language authors.
>
> You blame the authors for recognizing limitations of a language
> and inventing a new one to overcome those limitations.
>
> If the FORTRAN authors would have done that about 30 years ago, we
> all might be programming in FORTRAN.
>
> James
>
>
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Dr Tim Gruene
Institut fuer anorganische Chemie
Tammannstr. 4
D-37077 Goettingen
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