Python from Wise Guy's Viewpoint

Pascal Costanza costanza at web.de
Thu Oct 23 11:30:17 EDT 2003


Matthias Blume wrote:

> PS: When I say "untyped" I mean it as in "the _untyped_ lambda
> calculus".

What terms would you use to describe the difference between dynamically 
and weakly typed languages, then?

For example, Smalltalk is clearly "more" typed than C is. Describing 
both as "untyped" seems a little bit unfair to me.

Pascal

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