[piokuc]

Years ago, when I first heard about Python 3 and plans to improve the language my first thought was "Yes! Multi-line lambdas are coming!", then I started reading more and found out that Guido actually wanted to _remove_ lambdas all together. I still remember the state of shock I was in after reading that, and a sinking feeling.

The lambdas stayed, fortunately, but, unfortunately, I'm still convinced the whole project was a bad idea. The cosmetic changes which make Python 3 incompatible with Python 2.7 are just not worth the trouble of breaking the compatibility. Has anybody ever tried to estimate the man-hours needed to port the myriads of great Python 2.7 libs to Python 3 and weight it against the advantages of subtle language improvements? I don't think so. Plus, the big Python's problems like GIL are still there in Python 3...

If it was up to me I would drop Python 3 and focus the development effort of the community on improving PyPy and porting libraries to it.