Perl is worse! (was: Python is Wierd!)

[Steve Lamb]

On Sun, 30 Jul 2000 01:48:32 GMT, Grant Edwards <nobody at nowhere.nohow> wrote:
>I concur. In non-programming, life is strictly typed. Allowed
>operations are determined by the type of the object. You can't
>make a phone call on a waffle-iron.  Were I to _try_ to make a
>phone call on a waffle-iron, it doesn't "automagically" convert
>istelf into a telephone.  Instead, I get a rather interesting
>burn pattern on the side of my head.

    You're making the mistake of trying to associate programming concepts to
real world objects.  

    I'm sorry, but that is why I said data is data is data.

    To give you a counter example when I write my pen doesn't toss up an
exception when I write out, "11 people are insane!" because it contains an
integer in a string context!

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