Selling Linux to Windows Users

[Derek Broughton]

Dotan Cohen wrote:

> 2008/12/11 Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>:

>> That's a rather special case, as Python may well be the only computer
>> language ever written which _explicitly_ states that new versions
>> will not be backward compatible.
>>
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl_6

That's really not the same thing.  From Day 1, Python versions were 
never intended to be backwards compatible.  Perl has finally decided that 
they need a major update that won't be - but they still haven't 
philosophically decided that that is the future of the language, and it 
took them 6 major versions to reach this point.

Python doesn't even promise compatibility between _minor_ versions.  
What Python has demonstrated very well is that version-compatibility 
isn't nearly as important as people always thought.
-- 
derek