The Python developers clinging to Python 2

[Kent Sharkey]

Infoworld[^]:

Python Software Foundation survey finds that a significant number of Python developers are still using Python 2 for data analysis, computer graphics, and devops.

No one expects a breaking upgrade

[Nemanja Trifunovic]

Color me shocked. There are still people who develop in VB6.

utf8-cpp

[Bernhard Hiller]

VB6? Stupid poor boys. What about COBOL, MUMPS, FORTRAN? That's where to find the MONEY.

Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!

[trønderen]

Bernhard Hiller wrote:

What about COBOL, MUMPS, FORTRAN?

Fortran programmers of today are not using Fortran IV. If that is what you grew up with, you wouldn't recognize today's Fortran at all as Fortran! During the academic discussions leading up to Fortran 77, one of the gurus (I don't remember who of them) commented on the proposed extensions: 'I don't know what programming languages will look like in year 2000, but they will be named Fortran.' He certainly was right. Fortran 2003 didn't at all look like 'classical' Fortran, and since then, we have had 20 further years of development, where Fortran has changed a lot more than, say, C++ or C#. A new revision is scheduled before the end of the year. (Scheduled release dates for Fortran revisions have a long history of sliding, though!) You may still dislike Fortran 2018 as well as the 2023 revisions. But do not confuse Fortran 23 with Fortran IV.