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		bsder 16 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Perl's decline was cultural Except that Python took the other path when migrating from Python 1 to Python 2 and ... guess what? That was a "disaster" too. The only difference was that by the time of Python 3, Python programs were orders of magnitude bigger so the pain was that much worse.

symbogra 16 days ago [–]

Differences of scale do make a qualitative difference and must be considered when doing a migration.

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