Re: questions from a lost sheep

2008-10-03 Thread Michele Simionato
On Oct 2, 11:08 pm, johannes raggam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: statically typed language: A language in which types are fixed at compile time. Most statically typed languages enforce this by requiring you to declare all variables with their datatypes before using them. Java and C are statically

questions from a lost sheep

2008-10-02 Thread Joe Strout
Hi all, I used to by a big Python fan, many years ago [1]. I stopped using it after discovering REALbasic, because my main developmental need is to write desktop applications that are as native as possible on each platform, and because I really like a strongly-typed language with a good

Re: questions from a lost sheep

2008-10-02 Thread Chris Mellon
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Joe Strout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I used to by a big Python fan, many years ago [1]. I stopped using it after discovering REALbasic, because my main developmental need is to write desktop applications that are as native as possible on each platform,

Re: questions from a lost sheep

2008-10-02 Thread skip
Joe I've started to think fondly of the rock-solid stability of Python, Joe and have been wondering if perhaps aggressive unit testing could Joe mitigate most of the problems of weak typing. Note: Python is not weakly typed. It is dynamically typed. But, yes, there is no

Re: questions from a lost sheep

2008-10-02 Thread johannes raggam
On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 15:18 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joe I've started to think fondly of the rock-solid stability of Python, Joe and have been wondering if perhaps aggressive unit testing could Joe mitigate most of the problems of weak typing. Note: Python is not weakly

Re: questions from a lost sheep

2008-10-02 Thread Larry Bates
johannes raggam wrote: On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 15:18 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joe I've started to think fondly of the rock-solid stability of Python, Joe and have been wondering if perhaps aggressive unit testing could Joe mitigate most of the problems of weak typing. Note: