From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: who needs types? Types makes code ugly.
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2022 10:37:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <t79ss1$ch9$1@gioia.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1hrg9hd16j7hv7049g01dfjrdmhee5p2ga@4ax.com
On 2022-06-02 10:00, Doctor Who wrote:
> 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.
A more deep analysis begs the question, why don't we remove all that
ugly variables and the code itself?
Programming by the emoji is the future!
--
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-02 3:21 who needs types? Types makes code ugly Nasser M. Abbasi
2022-06-02 8:00 ` Doctor Who
2022-06-02 8:37 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2022-06-02 10:08 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2022-06-02 10:39 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2022-06-02 13:22 ` Stéphane Rivière
2022-06-06 23:26 ` Jerry
2022-06-02 10:47 ` Jeffrey R.Carter
2022-06-02 11:47 ` ldries46
2022-06-02 15:02 ` Ben
2022-06-02 22:10 ` John Perry
2022-06-03 0:02 ` Ben
2022-06-03 3:37 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2022-06-03 18:13 ` Ben
2022-06-03 18:34 ` Niklas Holsti
2022-06-03 20:27 ` John Perry
2022-06-03 20:56 ` Ben
2022-06-04 0:28 ` Randy Brukardt
2022-06-04 12:05 ` What's new in Ada 2022? (was: Re: who needs types? Types makes code ugly.) Dirk Craeynest
2022-06-17 17:33 ` who needs types? Types makes code ugly Wesley Pan
2022-06-17 20:46 ` Paul Rubin
2022-06-18 2:06 ` Randy Brukardt
2022-06-18 10:29 ` Dirk Craeynest
2022-06-18 22:16 ` Paul Rubin
2022-06-20 21:40 ` Randy Brukardt
2022-06-02 17:28 ` Keith Thompson
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