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		avisser on Nov 14, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Is the Migration to Python 3 Taking So Long? Fair criticism. But shouldn't you be even more pissed that the Unicode release was botched and we're still talking about it more than 10 years after? When I upgrade to a new version of C# ... nothing happens. Backwards compatibility is what made Microsoft the company it is. I think Python deserves all the crap it gets for 2 vs 3.

gggmaster on Nov 15, 2019 [–]

They have to be backwards-compatible to persuade people to pay for their proprietary products rather than switch to another vendor.

avisser on Nov 15, 2019 | [–]

So you're saying backwards-compatibility is awesome. I agree.

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