Perl is worse!

[Steve Lamb]

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.

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