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jodrellblank on Dec 30, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: About Python 3

Microsoft maintains good backward compatibility, but has a habit of releasing a new way of doing things every five minutes.

Particularly look at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms810810.aspx#bkmk_D... and windows current / deprecated/obsoleted ones.

Just to connect your Windows program to a Microsoft database.

LammyL on Jan 1, 2014 [–]

To be fair, most of those deprecated technologies are 10 to 20 years old and use paradigms that wouldn't cut it with how we build software today.

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