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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/11/2013 4:03 PM, Citizen Kant
wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:CAMbF=C_GF_AKO2dD_=bH6VN2GVcSbC=KtHFLw62CKq2yitcfyQ@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Hi,<br>
this could be seen as an extravagant subject but that is not my
original purpose. I still don't know if I want to become a
programmer or not. At this moment I'm just inspecting the
environment. I'm making my way to Python (and OOP in general) from
a philosophical perspective or point of view and try to set the
more global definition of Python's core as an "entity". In order
to do that, and following Wittgenstein's indication about that the
true meaning of words doesn't reside on dictionaries but in the
use that we make of them, the starting question I make to myself
about Python is: which is the single and most basic use of Python
as the entity it is? I mean, beside programming, what's the single
and most basic result one can expect from "interacting" with it
directly (interactive mode)? I roughly came to the idea that
Python could be considered as an <b>economic mirror for data</b>,
one that mainly <b>mirrors</b> the data the programmer types on
its black surface, not exactly as the programmer originally typed
it, but expressed in the most economic way possible. That's to
say, for example, if one types >>>1+1 Python reflects
>>>2. When data appears between apostrophes, then the
mirror reflects, again, the same but expressed in the most
economic way possible (that's to say without the apostrophes).<br>
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So, would it be legal (true) to define Python's core as an entity
that mirrors whatever data one presents to it (or feed it with)
showing back the most shortened expression of that data?<br>
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Don't get me wrong. I can see the big picture and the amazing
things that programmers write on Python, it's just that my
question points to the lowest level of it's existence.<br>
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Thanks a lot for your time.<br>
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Python is straightforward: you write instructions, and it executes
them. At its core, that's all it does. Why does the core have to
be any different than that? <br>
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--Ned.<br>
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