Lawrence D’Oliveiro <[email protected]> wrote at 02:05 this Sunday (GMT): > On 13 Dec 2025 11:55:35 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote: > >> Everything else is just a lot of lies. They pretend it's not strongly >> typed, but in the real world you will only encounter a lot of issue if >> you believe that. > > Think about why both JavaScript and PHP need a “===” operator, while > Python does not. > > It’s because Python is strongly typed.
I thought it was because JS was too liberal with type-casting to make things true, and the JS devs didn't want to break compatibility. >> ... there are a lot of libraries helping developers. > > Other languages have done that before. Why do you think Python has been > able to leapfrog every prior language in this regard? Perl had a lot of > libraries to its name (still does), and yet that no longer seems to be a > good enough reason to continue using Perl, simply because Python now does > it better. > > It’s because Python has such a strong core language on which to build > extensions. The libraries tend to make heavy use of this. It is quite nice, yeah. -- user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom -- https://mail.python.org/mailman3//lists/python-list.python.org
