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by dragonwriter 2873 days ago
> At least Python's backers had the guts to release a breaking version 3, unlike some other dynamic languages, specifically Ruby and Apache Groovy.

The backward-compatibility breaking Ruby release often held up as a parallel to Python 3—Ruby 1.9—was released December 25, 2007, about a year before Python 3.

If Python had as much guts as Ruby in this area we'd be seeing a backward-compatibility breaking Python 4 around 2021.