Re: who needs types? Types makes code ugly.

[Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>]

"Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org> writes:
> 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.
> ---------------------------

That's just one tutorial.  It likely doesn't reflect the views of most
Python programmers.  The "python.land" site has no official connection

And for what it's worth, Python 3.5 added support for "type hints".
https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html

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