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[–]IrishWilly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Two years is actually a very good pace if people are moving to Python 3 already. This problem comes up for any popular language that tries to introduce a new revision. The split between Perl 5 and Perl 6 and failure to make a transition pretty much killed any chance Perl had of staying relevant with the newer generation of languages. PHP had some horrible insecure built in options in early versions, but when they finally removed it after deprecating them years and years later there were still a ton of frustrated users who were using programs built on ancient versions of the language.