On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote:
> Nobody, 01.04.2011 18:52: > > Java is a statically-typed language which makes a distinction between >> primitive types (bool, int, double, etc) and objects. Python is a >> dynamically-typed language which makes no such distinction. Even something >> as simple as "a + b" can be a primitive addition, a bigint addition, a >> call to a.__add__(b) or a call to b.__radd__(a), depending upon the values >> of a and b (which can differ for different invocations of the same code). >> >> This is one of the main reasons that statically-typed languages exist, and >> are used for most production software. >> > > I doubt that the reason they are "used for most production software" is a > technical one. > > Agreed. In school, I was taught by a VHDL expert that the distinction between what gets done in hardware and what gets down in software is largely arbitrary - other than hardware often being faster than software, and hardware being less mutable than software. Lisp machines exist, or at least did at one time - from there, a Python machine doesn't seem much of stretch.
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