Python from Wise Guy's Viewpoint

Pascal Costanza costanza at web.de
Thu Oct 23 12:04:06 EDT 2003


Matthias Blume wrote:
> Pascal Costanza <costanza at web.de> writes:
> 
> 
>>Well, to say this once more, there are programs out there that have a
>>consistent design, that don't have "problems", and that cannot be
>>statically checked.
> 
> 
> Care to give an example?  How you you know that the design is
> consistent? 

Squeak, probably. Lisp development environments. Probably almost any 
development environment with a good debugger that allows for changing 
code on the fly.

> Do you have a proof for that claim?  Can you write that
> proof down for me, please?

No. Design consistency is an aesthetical category.

> :-)
> 
> Matthias

Pascal

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