Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.000 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.04; 'languages,': 0.04; 'languages.': 0.04; 'subject:Python': 0.06; 'dynamically': 0.07; 'statically': 0.07; 'accepted,': 0.09; 'annotations': 0.09; 'comment,': 0.09; 'executable': 0.09; 'lawrence': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'typed': 0.09; 'wrong,': 0.09; 'python': 0.11; 'language.': 0.14; 'guilty': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'says...': 0.16; 'language': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'bit': 0.19; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'nearly': 0.26; 'header:X -Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'feature': 0.29; 'leave': 0.29; 'strongly': 0.30; 'code': 0.31; 'that.': 0.31; 'follows': 0.31; 'stands': 0.31; 'steven': 0.31; 'there.': 0.32; 'languages': 0.32; 'alone': 0.33; 'created': 0.35; 'but': 0.35; 'c++': 0.36; "didn't": 0.36; "i'll": 0.36; 'should': 0.36; 'list': 0.37; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'anything': 0.39; 'does': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'enough': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'most': 0.60; 'no.': 0.61; 'our': 0.64; 'charset:windows-1252': 0.65; 'book.': 0.68; 'therefore': 0.72; 'subject:! ': 0.74; 'article': 0.77; 'mistake': 0.91 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Mark Lawrence Subject: Re: Python is DOOMED! Again! Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 08:49:50 +0000 References: <54c07d04$0$13012$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <1939680766443642112.878725sturla.molden-gmail.com@news.gmane.org> <6eb91c4b-92ff-44a8-b5a9-6ef04c71f4cb@googlegroups.com> <35a40ec6-3763-448b-9ea4-4a233a04979b@googlegroups.com> <54c1ccc8$0$13005$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <54c6d7c2$0$12992$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <54c83ab4$0$12982$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-92-24-222-48.ppp.as43234.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 39 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1422521412 news.xs4all.nl 2873 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:60477 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:84810 On 29/01/2015 08:23, Mario Figueiredo wrote: > In article , > breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk says... >> >> C and C++ are weakly and statically typed languages. Python is a >> strongly and dynamically typed language. Therefore anything following >> based on the above paragraph alone is wrong. >> > > Indeed. I confused strongly/weakly with static. I feel a a bit > embarrased by it. My apologies. Accepted, from me anyhow. Please remember the only person who never makes a mistake never does anything :) > > But no. Nothing that follows from that paragraph is wrong, just because > of that mistake. I should have emphasied the word *alone*, sorry about that. > > It still stands that list was artifically created to make it look like > type annotations on top of executable code is a feature of nearly every > language in the book. When it is not! > > Most particularly when it comes to statically typed languages, wich > Steven didn't feel guilty of including there. > I don't know enough about most other languages to comment, I'll leave that to the various gurus. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence