On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 10:44 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <[email protected]> wrote:
> Just to clarify: Python 2.0 was called 2.0 because the BeOpen marketing > department thought it was good idea, not because there were major > incompatible changes going into that release. > Alternative history question: if it was just 1.6, then would Python 3000, probably called "Python 2000/2.x" in that world, with all the fixes have happened sooner because you would have "ran out" (yes, v1.10 > v1.9) of numbers leading up to 2? > With that approach, the versioning scheme would just be an > implementation detail, which is good. Whether we call it Python > 4.2 or Python 42 is really not all that important. Python > is mature enough to not have to pull marketing tricks anymore. But of course we'll skip Python 9, just like iPhones and Windowses ;)
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