Perl is worse!

[Ben Wolfson]

On Fri, 28 Jul 2000 15:08:12 GMT, grey at despair.rpglink.com (Steve Lamb)
wrote:

>On 28 Jul 2000 14:09:30 +0200, Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic at iskon.hr> wrote:
>>I sort of hope you're trolling here.
>
>    No, I am not.
>
>>For me, 1 and "1" are clearly not two numbers.  The former is a
>>number, the latter a string consisting of the character "1".  Saying
>>that they are numbers because we "see" they're numbers is like
>>insisting one 1 + "one" to return 2 because "one" is so obviously a
>>number.
>
>    You see that only because you are a programmer and have gotten used to the
>concept of types.  I, too, am a programmer and I reject the concept of types
>because to the human that concept is meaningless.

Actually it's quite meaningful and useful when you want to talk about
languages.

"Tree has four letters" vs. "'tree' has four letters", and all that.

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