2009/7/5 average <dreamingforw...@gmail.com>: >>> Is it really that confusing? I have never heard of anyone asking "what >>> is py3k?" >> >> Do you read python-list? It has been asked. Also, some people seem to >> think that py3k is different from python 3. > > Personally, I vote for keeping the "3k" for 3000 (or is it 3072?). I > believe that py3k represents a ideal that hasn't been reached, despite > being hoped for in python3. By keeping it, it confers the idea > continual evolution *within* the language until that hypothetical > ideal is reached. Clearly, there are times when a language reaches > only a local maximum, and must depart from itself to arrive at a more > global optimum (an annealing problem in the minimization of > frustration energy). If py3k wasn't kept, another term would > eventually need to be invented.
And that's why we're already fantasizing about Py4k. :) -- Regards, Benjamin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
