Who's minister of propaganda this week?
Grant Edwards
grante at visi.com
Thu Mar 15 12:51:39 EST 2001
In article <slrn9b0ijs.ccb.kzaragoza at kzaragoza.ne.mediaone.net>, Kris J. Zaragoza wrote:
>Just a minor nit: The languanges that are being discussed are not
>actually typeless. They are typed, but dynamically. Every object in
>Python, for example, has some type associated with it, and as a
>result, the semantics that follow from that type. You cannot thus put
>a string in the middle of a mathematical expression. Relatively few
>of the "scripting" languages in popular use today are weakly typed or
>typeless (Perl and TCL come to mind.)
I would consider TCL to be degenerately typed: everything is a
string.
I tried to write a program in TCL once many years ago. After
the bleeding from the ears abated, I switched to Scheme. ;)
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