Reply to post: Re: Updates

'Java 9, it did break some things,' Oracle bod admits to devs still clinging to version 8

Mr Benny

Re: Updates

"Python's move from 2 to 3 has lots of examples of what to avoid but at least it happened."

And the advantage was what? Clearly not much given that 10 years later people are still wrtiting new code in Python 2. 3 should have been an evolutionary change, not a revolutionary one. Backwards compatibility *matters*.

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