<story><title>What&apos;s Coming in Python 3.8</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/793818/0c6f9dd271021cd4/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>teddyh</author><text>“I&amp;#x27;ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:&lt;p&gt;1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.&lt;p&gt;2. Anything that&amp;#x27;s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.&lt;p&gt;3. Anything invented after you&amp;#x27;re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”&lt;p&gt;― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt</text></item><item><author>voldacar</author><text>Python looks more and more foreign with each release.
I&amp;#x27;m not sure what happened after 3.3 but it seems like the whole philosophy of &amp;quot;pythonic&amp;quot;, emphasizing simplicity, readability and &amp;quot;only one straightforward way to do it&amp;quot; is rapidly disappearing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stakhanov</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s wrong to frame this as resistance to change for no reason.  See my other comment.  I see some of this stuff as repeating mistakes that were made in the design of Perl.  ...but there are quite few people around these days who know Perl well enough to recognize the way in which history is repeating itself, and that has at least something to do with age.</text></comment>
<story><title>What&apos;s Coming in Python 3.8</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/793818/0c6f9dd271021cd4/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>teddyh</author><text>“I&amp;#x27;ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:&lt;p&gt;1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.&lt;p&gt;2. Anything that&amp;#x27;s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.&lt;p&gt;3. Anything invented after you&amp;#x27;re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”&lt;p&gt;― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt</text></item><item><author>voldacar</author><text>Python looks more and more foreign with each release.
I&amp;#x27;m not sure what happened after 3.3 but it seems like the whole philosophy of &amp;quot;pythonic&amp;quot;, emphasizing simplicity, readability and &amp;quot;only one straightforward way to do it&amp;quot; is rapidly disappearing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bacon_waffle</author><text>The point #1 is expanded on in Feral by George Monbiot.  Basically, we have a tendency to see the outside world we grew up with as the way things naturally should be, ignoring that previous generations may have changed it to be that way.  That sheep-grazed pastoral landscape is easy to view as a thing worth preserving, but to an ecologist it might be a barren waste where there used to be a beautiful forest.</text></comment>