Don’t just take my word for it
Filed under: Fluff
I’ve been doing a lot of python programming the last couple of days. I Love python but going from a strongly typed language to a losely typed one always breaks my brain in horrible horrible ways.
For those none programmers out there a strongly typed language is basically just different parts of a program what kind of object they are getting. Cheeseburger, rock, poem… whatever. It’s great because programs are dumb and if it expects a cheesburger but gets a rock by mistake you don’t want it to try to bite down on that.
Python is a language that doesn’t do that, it basically just hands stuff off no matter what it is and this hurts my head. There’s terrible “but that may not be a cheesburger at all, it might be a rock!!” feelings. I’m writing the damn thing and there are ways around this (assertions) but still, just the principle of it makes my brain hurt
Also… I’m sorry but new… hello… NEW implicit news make my head hurt too. I’ll tell YOU when something is new you crapply little program, don’t try to assume!
Python, you make me laugh an cry at the same time. It really is light flying.

