Guido van Rossum is thinking about optional static typing for Python. Very interesting, because optional static typing on one hand preserves the highly dynamic nature of Python, while on the other hand offering type declaration as an option for optimization. You can get a great sense of what something like this could accomplish by trying out PyRex - which already offers something like statically typed Python today. Here's the original article.
We take this problem very seriously. - sure, and pigs can fly.
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With only an operating profit of 1.3 billion euros and a surplus of still 650 million euros, one has to do that too. Rip-off artists and liars.
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Ok, I've seen a lot of crazy stuff. But this Ruby introduction is really completely insane. Definitely worth checking out. Even if you have zero interest in Ruby or programming languages. The author must be completely out of his mind - I don't know what he's taking to produce books like this, but I'd like two kilos of it.
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