Re:James Gosling Interview
by ptx on Thursday August 12, 2021 @06:36AM
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It definitely isn't[1]. Python has both floats and integers. He's sort of right though that it doesn't have "true integers ... which ... improve performance" since Python's numeric types are boxed and not exactly fast (unless you use numpy).
Also, which "many other" languages have only doubles, aside from JavaScript?
Also, which "many other" languages have only doubles, aside from JavaScript?
[1] https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html#the-stand...