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

[Grant Edwards]

On Sun, 30 Jul 2000 02:45:58 GMT, Steve Lamb <grey at despair.rpglink.com> wrote:
>On Sun, 30 Jul 2000 01:48:32 GMT, Grant Edwards <nobody at nowhere.nohow> wrote:

>>I concur. In non-programming, life is strictly typed. Allowed
>>operations are determined by the type of the object. You can't
>>make a phone call on a waffle-iron.  Were I to _try_ to make a
>>phone call on a waffle-iron, it doesn't "automagically" convert
>>istelf into a telephone.  Instead, I get a rather interesting
>>burn pattern on the side of my head.
>
>    You're making the mistake of trying to associate
>programming concepts to real world objects.

But in many, many programs (at least in the embedded and
process control areas where I do most of my work) program
objects _do_ correspond to real world objects.

>    I'm sorry, but that is why I said data is data is data.

That's a bit of a tautology. ;)

>    To give you a counter example when I write my pen doesn't
>toss up an exception when I write out, "11 people are insane!"
>because it contains an integer in a string context!

I don't understand the analogy.  Pens are not responsible for
parsing English sentances and proofreading them.  They're
responsible for leaving a visible trail when they're dragged
across a paper surface.

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