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I guess you can't teach old dogs new tricks, huh?
Submitted by Terry Hancock on Thu, 2008-12-11 23:03.
Vote!Oh well, I guess I can't identify with the dog anymore...
:)
Submitted by Ryan Cartwright on Fri, 2008-12-12 01:15.
Vote!I think he’d say that with perl you don’t need to learn a new language to learn a new trick. ;o)
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Yeah, well I guess that is
Submitted by Terry Hancock on Sat, 2008-12-13 01:08.
Vote!Yeah, well I guess that is the sort of insight you’d expect from a cartoon dog. :-P
FWIW, Python 3 really isn’t that different from Python 2.X. People thought it was going to be a huge change, but it’s actually pretty incremental. It’s certainly not a “new language”.
it's new if you're coming from perl
Submitted by Ryan Cartwright on Sat, 2008-12-13 01:32.
Vote!It's new if you're coming from perl :o)