On: Extend Python 2.7 life till 2020

[coldtea]

Try ANSI C then!

[raverbashing → coldtea]

I heard Pascal is all the rage nowadays

Or a good, supported, still used and very stable language: Fortran.

[dragonwriter → raverbashing]

Fortran's most recent standard (Fortran 2008, adopted as an ISO standard in September 2010) was actually adopted more recently than the 2.7 release of Python, so, arguably, Python 2.x has been static for longer than Fortran.

(Obviously, if you said, e.g., Fortran 77, the story would be different.)

[coldtea → raverbashing]

Yeah. Actually, sarcasm aside, there's nothing wrong about using those languages at all.

The only pain point is Pascal's lack of a nice-sized community (and thus libraries, support for modern systems etc) nowadays.

[shitgoose → raverbashing]

Fortran=Math. Wherever there are projects solving math problems, they are running Fortran code. Or at best code ported from Fortran libraries.