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From: Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Why Python is like C++
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2013 12:12:47 +0000
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On 21/12/2013 11:37, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Dec 2013 05:34:51 +0000, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>
>> On 20/12/2013 14:19, Roy Smith wrote:
>>> http://xkcd.com/1306/
>>>
>>>
>> I believe that to be a very superficial like.  They're unlike in that
>> once C++ people have compiled their code they can head down to the pub,
>
> Ah, the good ol' "It compiles, quick, ship it!" school of thought.
>

Absolutely, everybody knows that successful compilation indicates bug 
free code, which is why statically typed languages are so vastly 
superior to dynamically typed ones, hence why the latter will never 
catch on.  Or do people around here know something I don't? :)

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence