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I think I am much happier to redo my personal scripts to stay at bleeding edge than to rewrite old code at work to stay in supported versions. For corporations wanton breaking changes means code that is working and has some non-zero risk to change has to have budget spent on it just to stay in place.

Just this week I failed to convince a team to migrate their ten year old maintenance mode demon to Python 3.



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