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

[Grant Edwards]

On Sun, 30 Jul 2000 01:54:55 GMT, Courageous <jkraska1 at san.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> >    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.

Nobody expects a proof, but a just-as-carefully-framed
counter-analogy would be a good start...

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