[Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 3.0 final (original) (raw)

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Sat Dec 6 19:48:04 CET 2008

On 10:12 am, thomas at python.org wrote:

When he learned he had to go back and relearn and fix them by hand, his actual words were "if thats the case, I'm gonna be forced to use another language". I hope that isn't a typical example of such a case, but I can partly understand the sentiment.

This is an overreaction, but it's a very typical overreaction. It's difficult to recover from a negative first impression even if you have lots of opportunities; in the case of an anonymous user trying out Python, the user will often stop using it, without telling anyone, and never come back. There's no opportunity to recover.

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