I've already tried running old C++ projects and every time something breaks, so it's not as clear cut as you make it to be
Some things in Python 2 were not fixable by keeping it backwards compatible. Print as a statement? Sure. But strings/byte arrays, no way.
Of course they could have made the Py2 implementation less broken and less stupid (yes please do use ASCII as the default, ignore the existence of unicode, be trigger-happy about errors, etc)
Some things in Python 2 were not fixable by keeping it backwards compatible. Print as a statement? Sure. But strings/byte arrays, no way.
Of course they could have made the Py2 implementation less broken and less stupid (yes please do use ASCII as the default, ignore the existence of unicode, be trigger-happy about errors, etc)