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

[Grant Edwards]

On Sat, 29 Jul 2000 19:52:54 GMT, Suchandra Thapa <ssthapa at midway.uchicago.edu> wrote:
>Alex Martelli <alex at magenta.com> wrote:

>>It matters if you care about how easy/hard it is to turn those
>>"non-programmers" into "programmers in the language you
>>are designing".  E.g., the CP4E project, which used to be
>>aimed at turning _everybody_ into programmers, had better

>    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.  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 can tune a piano, but you can't tune a fish...

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