type checking

[Stephen Horne]

On 13 Oct 2003 00:50:18 -0700, pythonguy at Hotpop.com (Anand Pillai)
wrote:

>I consider Python as high-level psuedo-code. It helps me in
>programming, since you dont make mistakes while writing 
>psuedo-code. So it follows by induction that you dont make
>these mistakes like static type errors while programming python.
>
>It is a different approach, by altering your thinking, rather
>than relying on tools. Works for me ;-)

While I agree that most likely sashan needs a change of mindset rather
than a language with static typing, this is an unrealistically
impressive claim.

There is no context where I do not sometimes make mistakes, including
pseudocode.

Of course errors do tend to be much rarer in Python, mainly because I
am concentrating on the program logic, rather than being distracted by
the overheads of the language.


-- 
Steve Horne

steve at ninereeds dot fsnet dot co dot uk