Re: [tlug] nessie - the loch ness monster of programming languages

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Bähr <mbaehr@example.com> writes:

    Martin> the main trait of nessie it borrows from python:
    Martin> indenting. the main difference to python: it is typed,
    Martin> something that python developers are now considering for
    Martin> python 3.

You're aware that Python 3 is not likely to actually happen before
Guido dies?  ;-)

Note that Python (like LISP, Smalltalk, and Haskell before it) _is_
strongly but dynamically typed.  You can find out the type of any
object.  What is being considered for Python is declarations (like
those of Common LISP) that are hints to the compiler for optimization;
they are more like C's "register" declaration than C types (which
actually aren't all that strong, as type systems go).


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