Re: who needs types? Types makes code ugly.

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

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!

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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