[Edu-sig] Microsoft's KPL

[Radenski, Atanas]

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From: Anna Martelli Ravenscroft [mailto:rev_anna_r at yahoo.com]
>On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 18:25 -0700, Radenski, Atanas wrote:
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: edu-sig-bounces at python.org [mailto:edu-sig-bounces at python.org]
>> On
> > Behalf Of Arthur
>> > Beauty is beauty, and is never useful.
>>
>> 'Beautiful' is what gives us pleasure. (Things that give us pleasure can
>> be useful at times, perhaps.)
>

>It is selfish to do thing simply for pleasure.

It is not necessarily selfish to do things simply for pleasure. It can be a most natural, harmless, and acceptable activity. Imagine I am looking at a flower, the flower is beautiful, looking at it gives me pleasure, so I continue looking just for the pleasure of it, but why should that be called 'selfish'? 
  
>Women are raised to be unselfish.

Really? All of them? 
 
>Anna

Atanas