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From: "George M {- dot -} Sheldrick" gsheldr {- at -} SHELX {- dot -} UNI-AC {- dot -} GWDG {- dot -} DE
Date: 2008-02-01

That's interesting. I'm glad that I am still using FORTRAN; SHELX-76
still compiles and runs unchanged with any modern FORTRAN compiler.

George

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On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, David J. Schuller wrote:

> This could be interesting:
>
> http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39292561,00.htm
>
> "Developers prepare for Python breakage
>
> Angus Kidman ZDNet Australia
>
> Published: 01 Feb 2008 10:43 GMT
>
> The launch of version 3.0 of Python, expected within the next year, will
> see major changes to some fundamental elements of the programming
> language, release manager Anthony Baxter explained in a keynote speech
> at linux.conf.au in Melbourne.
>
> Python is used extensively by Google for many of its products, including
> the popular YouTube video-sharing site.
>
> "3.0 is also known as the release where we break all your code but we're
> doing it for a good reason," Baxter said. "Python is 16 years old. Like
> all 16-year-olds, it's got some really annoying features."
>
> "Pretty much every program will need changes," Baxter said, but he
> stressed that the shift would be some time in coming..."
>
>
> --
> =======================================================================
> With the single exception of Cornell, there is not a college in the
> United States where truth has ever been a welcome guest - R.G. Ingersoll
> =======================================================================
> David J. Schuller
> modern man in a post-modern world
> MacCHESS, Cornell University
> schuller@cornell.edu
>

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