Re: [JUG-Delhi] Re: Sun makes mary with M$

On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 01:50:16PM +0530, mary wrote:
> Subject: [JUG-Delhi] Re: Sun makes merry with M$
> 
> 
> Why do you think python/perl is untyped ?! (or rather it would be 
> enlightening to know your definition of "untyped" here)
 
 Uh, oh. 
 I mean strongly typed vs weakly typed. I was studying some API's in
 python and spent a lot of time trying to figure out the datatype
 required by the constructor.
 I posted to a python list, and after some discussion they got what i
 meant and why it was important and said, "yes we too face it and we
 live without it."

 Similarly in perl , i have to actually run my application to
 discover a typo or variable error which means i could have actually
 done some processing before the error was reached. or i go through a
 whole flow to reach the error. Even then if there are some if
 conditions i have to go through each flow to check the error.

 In critical apps, i need a compiler that does all this before-hand. And
 as i say that, lemme ask: why do perl/python folks say that NOT having
 to compile improves productivity/ reduces devpt cycle?

 I have not been able to precompile jsps, and that has been resulting in
 run time errors days later which is embarrassing.
 
> enlightening to know your definition of "untyped" here)
Mary, didnt know you had the knack of humbling simple mortals like me ;)

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