Perl is worse! (was: Python is Wierd!)

[Suchandra Thapa]

Alex Martelli <alex at magenta.com> wrote:
>It matters if you care about how easy/hard it is to turn those
>"non-programmers" into "programmers in the language you
>are designing".  E.g., the CP4E project, which used to be
>aimed at turning _everybody_ into programmers, had better

    Actually I think it would be easier for non-programmers to
learn a language if it has strict typing.  That way beginners 
just need to learn that operators only on objects of the same type and
that parameters to a function need to match the type signature of 
the function.  That way they wouldn't need to learn what types a given
type can be automagically coerced to.  That along with the introduction
of type coercion would make understanding a code fragment a lot easier.
Plus, if you add a few other features like polymorphic types you could 
make your program type safe so that any program that compiled would be
guaranteed not to have any type errors.


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Suchandra S. Thapa 
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