On Sat, 20 Dec 2025 05:25:25 -0500, c186282 wrote:
>Well, I kind of liked PICK system ... everything was equal, always
>represented as a string. Numbers, chars, whatever - instantly/easily
>converted between each other.
>NO 'types'.
iirc Perl had 5 copies of a scalar just in case
On Sat, 20 Dec 2025 10:12:49 +, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> I would say that although Python does have some aspects of strong
> typing, it is mostly weakly typed.
Type hints sort of address that. Like TypeScript there is a temptation to
say 'foo: Any' to preserve duck typing.
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On Sat, 20 Dec 2025 04:01:01 -0500, c186282 wrote:
>I load MC on EVERYTHING by default - and it COMES IN USEFUL more than
>enough to be worth it.
I'll take your word for it. I haven't used in a couple of decades and only
vaguely remember how it works. It's safe to say I'm not feeling a b
On 2025-12-20 at 10:12:49 +,
Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> When you define your own classes, you can arrange for them to perform
> arithmetic with other types without explicit conversions too.
Assuming that you mean that I can define my own class that implements a
dunder method like __add__, t
On 2025-12-18 15:40, Peter Flass wrote:
On 12/17/25 20:10, c186282 wrote:
On 12/17/25 14:17, rbowman wrote:
On Wed, 17 Dec 2025 03:11:09 -0500, c186282 wrote:
Probably 50% of the text in my code - doesn't matter which
lang - is 'comments'.
I looked at some of my code and it's pretty much co
On Fri, 19 Dec 2025 20:58:10 - (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Dec 2025 13:30:03 - (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:
>
>> Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote at 02:05 this Sunday (GMT):
>>>
>>> Think about why both JavaScript and PHP need a “===” operator, while
>>> Python does not.
>>
candycanearter07
writes:
> Lawrence D’Oliveiro 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
On 12/19/25 14:38, rbowman wrote:
On Fri, 19 Dec 2025 03:30:56 -0500, c186282 wrote:
The ed in Midnight Commander is a bit better, AND you can use it
easily over SSH.
Back in the days of DJGPP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJGPP
I ported MC back to Windows, from whence it came as a
On 12/20/25 05:12, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
candycanearter07
writes:
Lawrence D’Oliveiro 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
