Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.advocacy,sci.physics Subject: Re: Linux Crashing Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 21:00:29 -0600 Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <8j29lg5kteuqhn9o9ophsgfp7afi7o2894@4ax.com> <68e9lg1q6m6phvi6m7mibhljvib8gdt1hq@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net EE4HcoMtyBUGWAbJNA/XVAdYwve9Gnq5GJxq8ZxFvljyioMk3v Cancel-Lock: sha1:vzSRfjPBWbj24hJVQJ36rZP92mM= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.6.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.setup:4499 comp.os.linux.advocacy:594861 sci.physics:833302 On 09/29/2021 04:56 PM, chrisv wrote: > The Natural Philosopher wrote: > >> JavaScript is the living example of the road to hell being paved with >> good intentions. >> >> there is for example, no typing of variables. So you have no idea if you >> are dealing with a character, an integer, a floating point a pointer to >> string or a pointer to a DOM or element thereof. > > Arg. Even in BASIC (where you don't need to type ints or floats) I > type all variables. It's hard to believe that any programmer would > not want to always know exactly what type of variable is being > dealt-with. > Variables have a right to be gender fluid. 'Gee, I'm feeling like a string today.' I forget if it's Perl or Python but if you dig into the internals dog = 1 is stored as an int, float, and string just in case it wants to be one or the other. Speaking of road to hell, there's Perl trotting down it.