No matter what anyone says about how it finally succeeded: taking a decade is just plain disastrous. Saying "a language has to evolve" is vapid and meaningless. "Change" per se is not good OR bad in itself.
To start with, 3 fixed a lot of things that were not really broken. As Jasper_ says below, "Python 2.8 would have been a much smarter idea."
No matter what anyone says about how it finally succeeded: taking a decade is just plain disastrous. Saying "a language has to evolve" is vapid and meaningless. "Change" per se is not good OR bad in itself.
To start with, 3 fixed a lot of things that were not really broken. As Jasper_ says below, "Python 2.8 would have been a much smarter idea."