On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > On 07/05/2013 01:17, alex23 wrote: >> >> On May 6, 10:37 pm, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: >>> >>> One of these days I'll work out why some people insist on using >>> superfluous parentheses in Python code. Could it be that they enjoy >>> exercising their fingers by reaching for the shift key in conjunction >>> with the 9 or 0 key? >> >> >> One of these days I'll work out why some programmers consider typing >> to be "effort". >> > > I think it's very important to consider this aspect. E.g. any one using > dynamically typed languages has to put in more effort as they should be > typing up their test code, whereas people using statically typed languages > can simply head down to the pub once their code has compiled.
And those who are porting other people's code to a new platform have weeks of work just to get ./configure to run, but after that it's smooth... Everything is variable. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
