On Friday 23 Oct 2009 10:30:24 am Girish Venkatachalam wrote:
> I have captured KG's idea of using [ LANGUAGETIP] as subject for
> filtering. Also you can filter on
> .a-language-tip-a-week. similar to .a-tip-a-day.
>
> And I shall mention the language name like this: [ LANGUAGETIP -
> Python] or [
Hello,
Making an assertion of intent like this:
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, Girish Venkatachalam wrote:
> Obviously I don't want to get into an argument.
... is incompatible with *strong* assertions like this:
> All scripting languages...by that I mean *all* scripting languages
> allow dynamic typing
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Girish Venkatachalam
wrote:
> I like your signature more than your mail. ;)
Glad, You liked it! :-)
> C is strongly typed. You cannot use any variable without declaring in advance.
Declaring variable does not make a language strongly typed. That is
just a proper
2009/10/23 Girish Venkatachalam
> 2009/10/23 Sahid Khan (সাহিদ) :
> > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Girish Venkatachalam
> > wrote:
> >> Scripting languages are weakly typed. C is strongly typed.
> >> Most scripting languages treat everything as string.
> >>
> >
> > I think this is another t
2009/10/23 Sahid Khan (সাহিদ) :
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Girish Venkatachalam
> wrote:
>> Scripting languages are weakly typed. C is strongly typed.
>> Most scripting languages treat everything as string.
>>
>
> I think this is another too generic statement which is not exactly
> correc
Hello,
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Girish Venkatachalam
wrote:
> Scripting languages are weakly typed. C is strongly typed.
> Most scripting languages treat everything as string.
>
I think this is another too generic statement which is not exactly
correct. E.g, Python is a strongly typed l
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Mano wrote:
>> o Scripting languages allow swapping and simultaneous
>> assignment. x,y = 1,2 and x,y = y,x to swap values.
>>
>>
> Perhaps thats too general a statement. Javascript does not allow that.
Well then js is the only scripting language that doe
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Girish Venkatachalam <
girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> o Scripting languages allow swapping and simultaneous
> assignment. x,y = 1,2 and x,y = y,x to swap values.
>
>
Perhaps thats too general a statement. Javascript does not allow that.
>
I have captured KG's idea of using [ LANGUAGETIP] as subject for
filtering. Also you can filter on
.a-language-tip-a-week. similar to .a-tip-a-day.
And I shall mention the language name like this: [ LANGUAGETIP -
Python] or [LANGUAGETIP - Perl ] or
[ LANGUAGETIP - C] or [ LANGUAGETIP - lua].
This
