Stephen R Laniel a écrit : > On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 09:08:16AM +0200, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: >> You said ? > > I could link again to Mark-Jason Dominus, who writes that > people often make the following inference: > > 1) C is strongly typed.
Lol. C is well known for it's very weak typing. > 2) C's typing sucks. > 3) Hence strong typing sucks. Whoever make such a braindead inference should better learn the meaning of words, read more about the concepts and applications of 'typing' in CS, and experiment with type-inference based languages. > But I won't. > > It doesn't need to be a religious war. Why can't people just > say "When strong typing is done and used well, it's a > useful tool; when it's not, it's not"? Python is actually a rather strongly typed language. Some would even say it's more strongly typed than C. Please stop confusing static with strong. "static" means 'at compile time' - by opposition with "dynamic", meaning 'at run time'. This is somewhat orthogonal to the 'weak/strong' axis. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
