"Don" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > > This is a silly and offensive statement. Most languages are in this > situation. Look at Python2 vs Python3, Perl6 vs Perl5. >
Interpreted languages are a very different matter (especially so for web development). They're not just compilers, they're effectively platforms. Python2 is needed just to *run* Python2 software. The same is not true for compiled languages: D1 is only needed to compile D1 software, not to run it. Languages like Perl and Python have much more need to maintain older branches.
