Rubikan

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   by Rubikan 8y ago

   > In all honesty: why is COBOL so prevalent in the finance sector? It can't seriously be SO GOOD as to be completely un-replacable? It is not un-replacable in itself, I'd imagine it is just a huge undertaking and many higher
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   by Rubikan 12y ago

   Yeah, but searching for the actual word is much easier than searching the acronym. Take MAC for example (tried out with german google, so your experience may vary). I get a cosmetics site, apple.com and store.apple.com, wikipedia article ab
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   by Rubikan 12y ago

   https://wiki.python.org/moin/Python2orPython3 I don't know what you mean by "I didn't find it simple ....". I googled "python 2 und 3 differences", and that was the first result.
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   by Rubikan 12y ago

   But if they still get bugfixes there will be even less incentive to switch for them. And if I look at the whole thing now, "no new features" is not certain. If people are still unwilling to switch he may consider backpedaling and
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   by Rubikan 12y ago

   If the Python core developers care so much about practical usage they should never have released python3 with features that break backwards compatibility. Your argument is right, but they should have thought about that before fracturing the
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   by Rubikan 12y ago

   Windows 8.1 isn't that bad. I actually never really see Metro if thats your biggest problem with it. Everything else (boot time, responsiveness etc.) feels like a direct upgrade from 7 and it works great for me. Did you try it once?