Python from Wise Guy's Viewpoint

[Kees van Reeuwijk]

Raffael Cavallaro <raffael at mediaone.net> wrote:

> Matthias Blume <find at my.address.elsewhere> wrote in message
> news:<m11xsx2aiu.fsf at tti5.uchicago.edu>...
> > [This whole discussion is entirely due to a mismatch of our notions of
> > what constitutes expressive power.]
> 
> No, it is due to your desire to be type constrained inappropriately
> early in the development process. Lispers know that early on,

That's very arrogant. You presume to know what is appropriate for *him*.

And I could retort with ``Static typers know that even early in the
development process it is appropriate to have the additional safety that
static typing brings to a program'', but I won't, since I'm not that
arrogant :-).