This topic is discussed on Slashdot too: http://slashdot.org/articles/05/12/22/1832226.shtml?tid=217
There are some interesting comments, for example from curious Java or Perl programmers, etc. Some of them can probably appreciate this: http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/typecheck Among the noise there is some signal too, there are lists of some problems of Python. Taking some of those things seriously can be useful, I think. Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list