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		zahlman 3 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Perl's decline was cultural "Willing" is an interesting word choice. There was quite a bit of resistance in the Python world despite the clear benefits. (2.x really could not be fixed, because the semantics were fundamentally broken in many places.)

999900000999 3 days ago [–]

It's open source.

Any one ( and I'm sure a few have tried) can fork 2.x and keep using it.

3.x is remarkably easy , you can probably onboard a non programer to Python in a month.

zahlman 3 days ago | [–]

> Any one ( and I'm sure a few have tried) can fork 2.x and keep using it.

They have tried and succeeded: https://docs.activestate.com/activepython/2.7/

I still consider the result "broken".

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