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by richrichie 791 days ago
I own both versions of this book, the first one is almost one third the size of the latest. :)
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That is sadly the thing with backwards compatibility, it is only additive.

Nowadays on Java and .NET worlds, we live through our own versions of Python 2, thanks to Java 8 => 9 transition, and .NET Framework => .NET Core.