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Paul Crawford Silver badge

Re: Just use Python. You need nothing else.

The white space that looks OK in one editor that happens to show tabs and 4 spaces the same way but breaks your code, that sort of design feature?

Not to mention the raft of v2/v3 changes that are still being found to subtly break things years later?

Thinking here of the change in the way the divide operation is interpreted as the most dumb/annoying to spot, with v2 acting like classic languages (divide int/int and get int result) while v3 "helpfully" assumes you really wanted a float answer to an integer division, like you expected float out of integer add, or multiply, ....

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