While C is a direct descendant of B, Python is a very different beast. It's a bit odd to frame Python as "C but without types". Maybe I misunderstand what you'r

While C is a direct descendant of B, Python is a very different beast. It's a bit odd to frame Python as "C but without types". Maybe I misunderstand what you're saying. Also I don't know much about B but given its age I seriously doubt that it's dynamically typed like Python. I suspect that it's more like assembly: you don't have types because most of everything is effectively an integer if you squint hard enough, and the way you decide to use the data lets the compiler/CPU know how to treat it. For instance in this snippet from TFA: v[10] 'hi!', 1, 2, 3, 0777; You may think that `v` is clearly dynamically typed, since it contains both ints and a character string, but I actually think it's a lot simpler than that: a pointer to a string is effectively an int, so you can store a pointer in an int array no problem. You can still do it (mostly non-portably) in modern C, you'll just need a cast or two at most. Of course it means that the type info is not actually carried by the variable like in Python. If you write `'hi!' + 'oy'` in Python you get 'hi!oy'. If you write 'hi!' + 'oy' in B I suspect that you get a garbage pointer, if not straight up undefined behaviour.