Is duck-typing misnamed?

[Terry Reedy]

On 8/26/2016 7:58 PM, ROGER GRAYDON CHRISTMAN wrote:
> "If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck,... "
>
> so there is indeed precedence for this so-called 'duck typing'
>
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> but wouldn't it be more Pythonic to call this 'witch typing'?
>
> "How do you know she is a witch?"
>
> "She looks like one."

Given that people were once burned to death for 'looking like a witch' 
(or sounding or acting), and can still suffer socially for such reasons, 
this it not funny to me.  We should stick with ducks.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy