What's better about Ruby than Python?
Kenny Tilton
ktilton at nyc.rr.com
Fri Aug 22 12:54:17 EDT 2003
Andrew Dalke wrote:
> Kenny Tilton:
>
>>>>as when we go for the
>>>>productivity win of untyped variables and give up on bugs strong
>>>
> static
>
>>>>typing is supposed to find.
>>>
>
> Jacek Generowicz:
>
>>Note that Kenny said "untyped _variables_" not "untyped objects" or
>>"untyped language".
>
>
> Ahh, I hadn't caught that.
>
> I did know Lisp had strong dynamic typing with optional static typing,
> which was why I was surprised he mentioned it. I still don't understand
> why he said it given that Python similarly meets the quoted statement.
?? I was just giving another example of how lisp errs on the side of
letting us shoot ourselves in the foot. I was not saying anything about
Python.
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