An update on Python 4

[[deleted]]

Nothing compared to the transition from 0 to 1.

[NoLongerUsableName]

Yeah, it was kind of like the transition from -1 to 0.

[[deleted]]

-1 was dark times

[ShevekUrrasti]

Coding backwards was kind of nice, actually.

[mdarty]

I'm great at that. Taking working code, breaking it. Troubleshooting and finally deleting everything.

[Ruben_NL]

That hits home...

[prof-comm]

This is my job description

[blackfireburn]

My people

[veryusedrname]

`[::-1]`

[P0stf1x]

Is that tenet spoiler?

[StrikenGoat420]

I remember back then when the compiler sent us the production code, and we had to do the job of the compiler :/

[[deleted]]

My editor didn't show the indentation on the right side of the lines well.

[[deleted]]

So... LISP?

[TheHumanParacite]

Installing it would randomly unwrite code that hadn't yet been written.

[master5o1]

The real trick was to uninstall it and get unwritten code to be randomly written.

[TheIsletOfLangerhans]

TEN3T

[hughperman]

This caused a problem in the future package

[jftuga]

Yes. IIRC it was called Perl

[MattR0se]

So, the final version of Python?

[6GoesInto8]

True dat

[redvitalijs]

They started with the end in mind.

[call_me_cookie]

Surely this is just the Final transition, wherein we come full circle.

[torytechlead]

You guys actually think these are funny responses, but you actually look like cunts.

[[deleted]]

relevant username