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Moving to Python 3

Posted Feb 10, 2011 6:52 UTC (Thu) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047)
In reply to: Moving to Python 3 by euske
Parent article: Moving to Python 3

>One should give it a different name when two languages are incompatible.

They did. It's called "Python3". The old one is called "Python2".

It's analogous in some ways to ALGOL 60 vs ALGOL 68. Same heritage, but different languages.

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