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

[Courageous]

> >    Actually I think it would be easier for non-programmers to
> >learn a language if it has strict typing.
> 
> 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.

This is a conceptualization issue, and I suspect to a degree,
false. If "x" is merely a label, one can imagine x labeling
3 or x labelling red quite easily. Your analogy works because
you carefully framed it, but there's nothing at all to say that
your framing of it was right.

To the contrary; while I can't prove it, I do believe it's wrong.

C/