Compare Python with other languages - and language bashing :-)

Language wars

• MFL can beat YFL
• Python and Java side by side

Python praise

• Typing: Strong vs. Weak, Static vs. Dynamic, and Name-based polymorphism
• Getters and setters pythonic way

Java bashing

• Paul Graham - why Java smelled suspicious

Perl fun

• examples of scary Perl code

Dynamic typing

•  Dynamic languages put the soft back in software
• Are Dynamic Languages Going to Replace Static Languages? The more I depended upon the unit tests, the less I depended upon the type safety of Java or C++
• using a dynamic language - write the main code and the unit tests with less code than it takes to write just the main code in a statically typed language. draw a line between reusable object components/libraries (in statically typed lang) and the glue code that puts the reusable objects together to make them do something useful (which should dynamically typed)

How to write bad code

• how to write code that is so difficult to maintain