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		postfuturist on May 26, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Python 3 is killing Python Java 6 did not break backward compatibility (code written for Java 5 generally runs fine on Java 6).

alphabetam on May 26, 2014 | [–]

Code written for Java 2 runs fine on Java 8, with extremely limited exceptions. Java, just as Windows, is used too much in enteprise apps to lose backward compatibility.

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