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Re:James Gosling Interview by ptx on Thursday August 12, 2021 @06:36AM (#28154509)
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?

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html#the-stand...

Re:James Gosling Interview by mananaysiempre on Thursday August 12, 2021 @07:13AM (#28154799)
Lua < 5.3 (thus also LuaJIT), unless you make an integer-only build. But yes, I wouldn’t call that “many”.