PyCon: Evangelizing Python

Posted Apr 17, 2013 21:56 UTC (Wed) by dpquigl (guest, #52852)
In reply to: PyCon: Evangelizing Python by HelloWorld
Parent article: PyCon: Evangelizing Python

By the way you should learn proper reading comprehension before opening your mouth. I did not say that C is high-level nor strongly-typed. What I said was.

"I go home and code C or code in some other high level strongly typed language.".

That sentence does not mean that C is a strongly typed high level language.

PyCon: Evangelizing Python

Posted Apr 17, 2013 23:48 UTC (Wed) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link] (2 responses)

Sorry to be a language nit-picker but "some other" in this context is often interpreted to mean another of the same kind or something similar, implying that you think C is a strongly typed high level language.

PyCon: Evangelizing Python

Posted Apr 17, 2013 23:51 UTC (Wed) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

I think referring to "strongly typed" as if it is a binary thing instead of a continuum is a mistake either way.

PyCon: Evangelizing Python

Posted Apr 18, 2013 16:03 UTC (Thu) by dpquigl (guest, #52852) [Link]

I agree but the context of the larger discussion was that people don't code C++ on the weekend. C++ is what I was referencing with some other strongly typed high level language and was the language I originally addressed. If you take the one sentence out of the context of the paragraph then yes you are correct. Taken within context of the entire paragraph it should have been clear that I was talking about C++.