Are the critiques in "All the things I hate about Python" valid?

[bartc]

On 20/02/2018 19:04, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Feb 2018 17:11:05 +0000, "Wild, Marcel, Prof <mwild at sun.ac.za>"
> <mwild at sun.ac.za> declaimed the following:
> 
>>
>> So the special type of the values 65..90 might not allow the type be multiplied or divided, or added to itself. Because they represent characters A..Z. Or house numbers. Or the age of pensioners. (You'd need to convert to ordinary integers, is that is allowed.)
> 
> 
> 	Off-hand -- if you are storing the /age of pensioners/, you have an
> inappropriate data model... Age being a time varying value computed as:
> 		time_now - date_of_birth
> and date_of_birth is the proper entity for storage...

If you wanted a scientifically exact value, maybe.

But someone who's 24.157094 years old now won't say their age is 
24.157094 (and 24.157104 five minutes later). They will usually say they 
are 24, until they are 25 (much older people prefer to round upwards, 
for some reason).

So age is usually colloquially specified as an integer from 1 to around 
100. Other than for young children where the lack of precision requires 
the use of fractions or to switch to whole numbers of months or weeks.


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bartc