Flying With Python (Strong versus Weak Typing)

Jp Calderone exarkun at intarweb.us
Mon Mar 17 01:11:48 EST 2003


On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 06:26:20AM +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> Jp Calderone wrote:
> 
> >   Can you "cast" a square peg to a round one, though? ;)  I think a better
> 
> Sure, as was demonstrated by the Apollo 13 "problems", were they fitted a
> square peg to a round hole - sort of (atleast that's how they showed it
> in the film, IIRC).

  I liked the hammer analogy someone else used.  What the Apollo 13 ground
crew and mission crew did strikes me as more akin to using a proxy type to
make one thing fit the interface of another.

  Jp

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