Flying With Python (Strong versus Weak Typing) [actually, Static vs Dynamic typing]

[Chermside, Michael]

> > Btw. my pet-peeve in Java is the lack of Ada-like generics, so that in order to
> > avoid casting like hell as you did above, you have to implement your own
> > iterator class for each time.
> 
> Then you'll be happy to hear they now fixed that (upcoming jdk has generics, I
> think).

I don't think that java gets to count features which are much discussed
(and even prototyped) but not yet released. Of course I hold Python to
the same standard.

-- Michael Chermside