Is duck-typing misnamed?

[Joe]

Am 28.08.2016 um 00:34 schrieb 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'
>>
>>
>> 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.
>
Agree.