>  From: Paul Prescod [mailto:paulp@[...].com]

>  

>  This issue is constantly presented as some sort of dichotomy between

>  "regular" programmers" and newbies. But really it is more of a 

>  dichotomy between those originally trained on typed languages and 

>  those on dynamically typed languages.

>  

>  The other languages in the Python category (Perl, Ruby, 

>  JavaScript, ...)

>  all make a different choice for division and the choice is

>  uncontroversial. Python is the only one of the languages that has a

>  constant battle on the issue.


Ruby seems to be quite in line with (current) Python:

irb(main):001:0>  puts 1/2

0
nil
irb(main):002:0>  puts 1.0/2

0.5
nil
irb(main):003:0> 


-- bjorn

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