Joshua Boyd <jdboyd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:10:46PM +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > > If you get serious about programming, its important to > > know more than just C and C++. For many tasks, garbage > > collected languages with stricter type systems than C > > and C++ are a better fit. Langauges like Python, Ruby, > > Ocaml and Haskell. Even Java!!! > > You say stricter type system, then Python and Ruby in the next > sentence. Does not compute. ;) > All of these terms tend to be used fairly loosely in practice, so there is certainly a lot of room for disagreement, but Python, in particular, has a fairly strict type system. It is dynamic (execution-time) checking, rather than static (compile-time) checking, but you *will* get a big, fat exception if you get your types wrong. So it's not quite such a non-sequitur as you imply. And it's certainly stricter type checking than e.g. in C. Nick _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
