Guido van Rossum Leaves Zope.com

VladDrac writes "Guido van Rossum, the author of the Python programming language, announced at OSCON last night that he's leaving zope.com, to work for a new startup called 'Elemental Security', founded by Dan Farmer (known from several security tools such as Satan). Guido leaving Zope.com will also probably mean that he will be no longer involved in Zope3 development, but hopefully he'll have more time to spend on Python development." Guido says that he's excited about his new employer, but that nothing substantial will change about Python as a result of the move. "It's just that I'll be working from the West coast." Python is "already quite secure," he says, and will be the basis of an upcoming security product ("just getting started") from Elemental.

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Re:Good times.

[dtolton]

It is a misconception that Python is not strongly typed. It is strongly typed, it is not *statically* typed.

Python is a stronly typed, dynamically typed, extremely late bound language.

Double check your facts before calling someone else a dumbass.

The difference between a dynamically typed language and a statically typed language is this:
// Java
int myvar = 1;

# Python
myvar = 1

The difference is that the Java compiler assigns a datatype to the location of myvar, but python assigns a datatype to the value held in myvar.

It's a subtle difference, and many python newbies think it's not strongly typed, however that is a mistake.