Adding static typing to Python

[Drew Csillag]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 10:58:33AM +0100, Gerhard Häring wrote:
> Le 19/02/02 ? 03:18, Grant Edwards écrivit:
> > In article <mailman.1014085471.28317.python-list at python.org>, Chris Gonnerman wrote:
> > 
> > > Ultimately, adding static typing to Python results in a different
> > > language; it's not Python anymore.
> > > 
> > > If you don't like Python because the typing isn't strong, use Ada,
> > > or C++, or Pascal... 
> > 
> > You might also want to take a look at Modula-3.  Anybody used
> > to Python will recognize many of the language features.
> 
> Modula-3 also looks great, as did Sather to mee. But both seem seem to
> have no compilers that are actively maintained.
> 
> So I'm still leaning towards Ada 95 and C++ for statically typed
> languages.

If you want really statically typed, you probably want to take a look
at Eiffel.

Drew