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Sunsetting Python 2
Most languages have had breaking changes at some point in their history. Even the language known as "Perl 5" had them in almost every version.
justinator
on Sept 10, 2019
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In the real world, I've found Perl scripts written in 1999 (and poorly - as they were written by me in my teens) will still run in 2019. It's basically the policy that even language mistakes won't be undone:
https://perldoc.perl.org/perlpolicy.html#BACKWARD-COMPATIBIL...
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