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On Tue, 24 May 2011 13:39:02 -0400, "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy@druid.net>
declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:


> My point was that even proponents of the language can make a
> significant error based on the way the variable is named.  It's like
> the old Fortran IV that I first learned where the name of the variable
> determined whether it was an integer or a floating point.
>
	Only if one didn't declare the type ahead of time...

	And even then it wasn't that hard to remember (using a non-PC
mnemonic): Indian's are integer (variables starting I to N inclusive
were integers)
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