Favorite non-python language trick?

Mike Meyer mwm at mired.org
Tue Jun 28 18:51:46 EDT 2005


Tom Anderson <twic at urchin.earth.li> writes:
> On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Roy Smith wrote:
>> Tom Anderson  <twic at urchin.earth.li> wrote:
>>> The one thing i really do miss is method overloading by parameter
>>> type. I used this all the time in java
>> You do things like that in type-bondage languages
> I love that expression. I think it started out as 'bondage and
> discipline languages', which is even better. I'm going to start
> referring to python as a 'sluttily typed' language.

Since the user is the one bound with B&D languages, they are clearly
tops. Which makes Python a bottom.

      <mike
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