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

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Sat Dec 6 22:26:49 CET 2008

On 08:51 pm, guido at python.org wrote:

On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 12:19 PM, <glyph at divmod.com> wrote:

I also don't think 3.0 is perfect, and five years on, there will be a temptation to make more "just this once" incompatible changes. Of course, you've promised these changes won't be made, and this set of design mistakes will be with us forever. It would be nice if there were a way for evolution to continue without another reboot of the world.

Since one of your favorite themes is that your team is too small, I would like to reuse that idea. If we had as many Python core developers as Sun and IBM have working on Java, we could most likely have introduced all Python 3.0 features gradually, with compiler flags and future imports to support different versions. But despite being a bit bigger than Twisted, we're still severely constrained by resources.

Ah, the dangers of over-editing. I originally had a whole paragraph about how I understood that the Python dev team was also resource constrained, but I deleted it for brevity. Now you see why my posts are so long! :)

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