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GP told about "a government". You rephrased to "The people running our society". If we accept the fact that this people is, simply put, the rich and the giant corporations... they …

FWIW Pypy used to share this behaviour. It was clearly a bug, as it doesn't follow CPython convention. It's around since 2013 and was found in a unit test coverage improvement effo…

To elaborate on the 'nice little shortcut' you mentioned, here it is: If a==b and N≠0 , then x==y EDIT: Formatting

(a + b)/c = a/c + b/c for c ≠ 0 . Otherwise it has no meaning. Therefore (2 + 1)/0 = 2/0 + 1/0 is not even false, it just means nothing. BTW, you didn't mention Infinity explicitly…

Meanwhile, in Python... In [1]: 255 + 1 is 256 Out[1]: True In [2]: 256 + 1 is 257 Out[2]: False Every language has its inconsistencies, when it comes to math, because they run on …

Pony does have exceptions, and indexing an array does raise if the index is out of bound. It doen't have runtime errors because all exception must be handled somewhere in the call …

And please, don't break / either. Github and docs.python.org for instance don't play nice for vim users.

Anything that silently sends informations about your users to a third party is nasty by nature, including google analytics, gravatar, disqus, +1/like buttons and many more. Please,…