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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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