Fedora ponders the Python 2 end game

Posted Aug 11, 2017 22:08 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Fedora ponders the Python 2 end game by dvdeug
Parent article: Fedora ponders the Python 2 end game

Old enough to remember when software was completed? When was this?

I can think of two pieces of software that were completed. TeX, because Knuth decreed it (and bugfixes didn't stop even then), and BBC B Elite, which must be considered to eventually have been completed because there was literally no more RAM in which to fix the single remaining known bug: IIRC, it needed three bytes, and after many sweeps through the code, optimizing each time, there was no more fat to be wrung out of it.

Fedora ponders the Python 2 end game

Posted Aug 21, 2017 21:46 UTC (Mon) by pboddie (guest, #50784) [Link] (1 responses)

Do you have any more information about this Elite bug? Some enquiries have produced an account of another bug, but also some scepticism about one which needed three unavailable bytes to be fixed. Someone even asked Ian Bell for his recollections!

Fedora ponders the Python 2 end game

Posted Sep 1, 2017 15:24 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

I said 'IIRC' because this too was from vague recollections. I'll ask around. :)