I wouldn't hold that against Python because the abundance of Perl 5 programs won't run under Perl 3 either. :)

And then what happened?

Pretty much all perl written since 1994 will still run on perl today, python won't

http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/tags

...
21 years ago   perl-5a2    1994-Oct-07
22 years ago   perl-4.0.36 1993-Feb-05
23 years ago   perl-4.0.00 1991-Mar-21
24 years ago   perl-3.044  1991-Jan-12
25 years ago   perl-3.000  1989-Oct-18
26 years ago   perl-2.001  1988-Jun-28
26 years ago   perl-2.0    1988-Jun-05
27 years ago   perl-1.0    1987-Dec-18

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Python

Python 1.0 - January 1994
 Python 1.6 - September 5, 2000
Python 2.0 - October 16, 2000 
 Python 2.7 - July 3, 2010
Python 3.0 - December 3, 2008 
Python 3.4 - March 16, 2014

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In reply to Re^3: Honest question about Perl, Python and Ruby by Anonymous Monk
in thread Honest question about Perl, Python and Ruby by madM

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