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

[Alex Martelli]

"Courageous" <jkraska1 at san.rr.com> wrote in message
news:39838BAC.C855EDCB at san.rr.com...
>
> > >    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

This only proves that types are not attached to LABELS, but
rather to the OBJECTS they happen to be labeling.  I.e., that
Python's modeling of this situation is exactly right:-).


Alex