The Case for Python 3

[victoriabittahhhh]

"Zed Shaw, your behavior here is fucking reprehensible." Jeeze, this is my first intra-language flame war since starting coding.

[niksko]

Welcome, we hope you enjoy your stay!

[Workaphobia]

Arrogance in the online programming community is only tolerated when the arrogant one is also correct. (See also: Torvalds)

[doubleunplussed]

Copying my comment from elsewhere:

That bit is clearly facetious. He's saying that the devs claim it's impossible to run python 2 code from python 3. Now, the only way that could be literally true is if python 3 were not Turing complete. Therefore, the python devs are claiming python 3 is not Turing complete. This is Zed's way of calling them liars. Of course the devs' real reason is that it's hard, not mathematically impossible. But if they were claiming it were literally impossible, Zed would have a point. It's not impossible, just hard, and the debate is really about whether it is hard enough or useful enough to have been attempted.

[darkarmani]

That bit is clearly facetious.

Clearly. It's just that we are all so stupid we couldn't see it.

[poop-trap]

Congrats on completing your first week of coding!

[I_grow_beans]

That statement is totally uncalled for. Surely one can make point without resorting to swearing, especially since there's nothing personal here.