[Python-Dev] Type hints -- a mediocre programmer's reaction

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Tue Apr 21 12:27:23 CEST 2015


On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 08:37:28PM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Jack Diederich <jackdied at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Twelve years ago a wise man said to me "I suggest that you also propose a
> > new name for the resulting language"
> >
> 
> The barrage of FUD makes me feel like the woman who asked her doctor for a
> second opinion and was told "you're ugly too."

Don't worry Guido, some of us are very excited to see this coming to 
fruition :-)

It's been over ten years since your first blog post on optional typing 
for Python. At least nobody can accuse you of rushing into this.

http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=85551


-- 
Steve



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