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> 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 i…

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 cosmeti…

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.

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 unw…

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, b…

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 fr…