The cover features blurbs from William Gibson, Vernor Vinge, John
Carnack, and Bruce Scheier.
What, they couldn't pop for an advance copy for Guido?
-- Wade Leftwich
Ithaca, NY
Damn keyboard. The last two endorsers are John Carmack and Bruce
Schneier.
I should hope that by 2018, Python 4000 would be more cutting-edge.
Or is the protagonist struggling with backward-compatibility with a
Python version that would be nearly 10 years old already?
-- Paul
I think it was just a conservative guess that Python 3000 would be out by then.
Stefan
>> I'm about halfway through Charles Stross' excellent new novel,
>> "Halting State". It's set in Edinburgh in the year 2018, and one of
>> the main characters is a game programmer whose primary language is
>> something called "Python 3000".
>
> I should hope that by 2018, Python 4000 would be more cutting-edge.
> Or is the protagonist struggling with backward-compatibility with a
> Python version that would be nearly 10 years old already?
Or, the author questions availability of P3k in 2008. It's not that hard
to believe, since Python 3000 was a mythical monster (not even like Perl
6) until recently. If the book was written around 2005 or even 2004...
--
Jarek Zgoda
http://zgodowie.org/
If the whole 3.n series is called "Python 3000", then it's very
plausible. I can see Python 3.7 or 3.8 being the latest version in
2018.
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Simon B.
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