Novel Thoughts on Scripting and Languages

[Grant Edwards]

In article <52719db8.0301092211.60ae0618 at posting.google.com>, James Huang wrote:
> Andrew Dalke <adalke at mindspring.com> wrote in message news:<avj741$r77$1 at slb3.atl.mindspring.net>...
>> James Huang:
>> > As I said, "I guess"-ed. Weakly-typed-ness, are variables required to
>> > be declared with types before use, and do not change for most
>> > situations? I know VB has a strict mode that enforces this.
>> 
>> That's static typing.  C is statically typed, but weakly typed.
>> For example, in C you can add a pointer, and integer, and a character,
>> but the types are all declared.
> 
> Without static typing, what good does strongly-typedness do?

Are you serious?

Have you ever written anything in Python?

I'm beginning to think this is all a gigantic troll...

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