[wyldfire]

> There is no particular reason why we can't maintain stability. I can still run [some] Microsoft DOS programs from the '80s

In fact, there isn't, you are 100% correct. I don't think anyone on the python dev team thinks that somehow 2.7 "can't" be maintained.

Grab the 2.7 branch [1] and build and test it on your favorite OS. If it still works tomorrow or next year, or in the 2080s, congratulations! You got a working product and you apparently didn't need any support.

> That's code from 1977 - 40 years ago!

Python's popularity will ensure that some group, somewhere will champion 2.7. And maybe in ~2030 we'll still see active support.

[1] https://github.com/python/cpython/tree/2.7