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> [this] distinction [...] is only useful in a statically-typed languages

...like Erlang.



Yeah, while snarkily made its a good point that Erlang does make use of it without being statically typed.

There is a deep difference that goes beyond use of tuples in language approach between Python and Erlang here where it comes to types in which Erlang, while dynamically typed, has a deep concern for types in its pattern matching system to make path decisions while Python is very much centered on using dynamic OO techniques -- how objects respond to messages -- to do that.

So I'd still say its the same kind of deep language approach difference at work.




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