[Info-vax] Python on VMS

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Thu Jan 17 12:36:23 EST 2019


On 1/17/2019 11:17 AM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> Upward-compatibility is most definitely very desirable and very 
> important.  But in very specific and selective cases, app compatibility 
> has to be broken to make forward progress.

Yes.

And many are relative good at doing that.

But I don't think Python fall in that category. Changing
the meaning of the / operator and changing print from
keyword to function does not seem to have been really
needed the same way as VMS need longer password hash.

Arne




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