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Subject: Re: who needs types? Types makes code ugly.
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On Wed, 1 Jun 2022 22:21:08 -0500, "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
wrote:

>So Ada had it wrong all the time it seems. From
>
>https://python.land/python-tutorial
>
>------------
>In a strongly typed language, you need to specify the exact
>type of each variable, like String, int, and float. It
>gets even uglier when objects are involved.
>
>Now let’s look at Python variables. In Python, we can do
>exactly the same without types:
>
>my_name = "Erik"
>my_age = 37
>my_salary = 1250.70
>
>As you can see, the Python variant is a lot cleaner and easier on the eyes!
>----------------------
>
>And about possible error, they defend this by saying:
>
>--------------------------
>In addition, you’ll find out soon enough during testing
>and fix the error before the software ever goes to production.
>---------------------------
>
>So, I think all what Ada needs is to simply remove all those
>ugly types from the language and it will become popular
>like Python is now :)
>
>--Nasser

nonsense.