[Edu-sig] The fate of raw_input() in Python 3000

[Arthur]

kirby urner wrote:

>
> You say I'm just pushing what'll happen by natural evolution if I just
> abandoned my to-your-ears arrogant tone.  Just let the invisible hand
> do the job, so no one gets all the credit.

No.

I think I am saying that unless folks like you and I find some way to 
work together where we substantively agree - we will lose to the Big 
Boys at MIT.

Which is no big deal ...except that the last nail is in the coffin of 
the American educational system.  Evolutionary, in itself, and who 
knows, maybe for the best.

But for someone trying to maintain some hope it might end up otherwise,  
it does seem a pity I am not shaped like a regular tetrahedron, or 
willing to  do battle under the CP4E flag,  Kirby interpretation.

Close, but no cigar.

Art
 

> I don't want all the credit, but I will claim a lion's share in some
> corners, in some niche markets where I really excel and deserve high
> ranking.  But yes, we'll let the students decide.  It's vote with your
> feet time.  CP4E or something both dumber *and* more elitist (not a
> winning combo in my book).
>
>> Funny how Bucky has been accused of the same thing.
>>
>
> Yeah, by the same cast of wannabees.
>
>> The surrounding grandiose rhetoric is the nonsense..
>>
>> Art
>
>
> Is that how you lick 'em over at MIT?
>
> I'll be quiet down now.  We might lose that signal-to-noise ratio of
> Perfect Phi, that I try to maintain.
>
> I think I've made all the points I need to make re raw_input.  End of
> thread, as far as me needing a soap box.
>
> I thank the Crunchy Frog for introducing us to that whole terrain.
> Very fertile.  I learned plenty.
>
> Kirby
>
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