"Alex Martelli" wrote > Steve Holden wrote: > ... > > >> Get yourself a stuffed bear, and next time you have this kind of problem > > >> spend a few minutes explaining to the bear exactly how your program > > >> can't possibly be wrong. Works like a charm. > > > > > > A rubber ducky works much better for that, btw -- more easily washable > > > than a stuffed bear, for example. > > > > > But stuffed bears are so much more knowledgeable about the minutiae of > > software design. > > And yet, the key to Python's strength is duck typing -- if you can teach > the duck to type, you've got it made.
... and then (gradually) rather unrealistic communication dream called "Babylonian fish" can be replaced by slighly more realistic programmers dream called "Python language with natural language processing when programming" (buzzword DuckPython). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
