Novel Thoughts on Scripting and Languages
James Huang
judoscript at hotmail.com
Thu Jan 9 00:19:02 EST 2003
"Terry Reedy" <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote in message news:<_aidncfu-8LtqIGjXTWc3A at comcast.com>...
> "James Huang" <judoscript at hotmail.com> wrote in message > I've heard
> big software projects done in Python, guess that's what you
> > are referring to. Being a C/C++/Java guy, it is hard for me to
> imagine
> > creating big software with weakly-typed languages beyond
> prototyping.
>
> If you are refering to Python as 'weakly-typed', you are mistaken.
> Except for some class instances, Python objects have fixed types. No
> 'casting' allowed. Even the exceptions are limited. If you try to
> understand Python from a C/C++ mindset (which is where I also came
> from), you will fail.
>
> TJR
That's exactly what I was trying to find out in a hurry. Thanks for
clarifying. I wish I could take back my ignorance.
-James
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