[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Because I can extrapolate. I *know* before even trying it that > if I export all my data from a sqlite db to a csv file and then try > to import it into Access that there will be problems if the fields > aren't static typed.
that's just the old "C++/Java is better than Smalltalk/Python/Ruby" crap. we've seen it before, and it's no more true when it comes from you than when it comes from some Java head. people who've actually used dynamic typing knows that it doesn't mean that all objects have random types all the time. > That's one of the reasons why I was such a good test engineer. > I could anticipate problems the design engineers didn't think of > and I would deliberately provoke those problems during testing > and crash their hardware/software. > > I wasn't very popular. no wonder, if you kept running around telling your colleagues that they were liars and crackpots and slanderers when things didn't work as you expected. what's your current line of work, btw? </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list