Re: Python (was Re: Recent history of vi)

Lawrence D’Oliveiro <[email protected]> Sun, 14 Dec 2025 02:05:54 -0000 (UTC)

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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.

> ... 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.