Reading the documentation
Steve D'Aprano
steve+python at pearwood.info
Thu Aug 24 23:36:40 EDT 2017
On Fri, 25 Aug 2017 01:27 pm, Rustom Mody wrote:
> People should be free to dislike who they like to dislike
> However…
> Calling Newton an idiot is ok… if you are not a physicist (flat-earther??)
> Calling Turing an idiot is ok if you dont like computers (Luddite??)
> Given that for most people who have gone through a (½ decent) CS education
> Chomsky is in the Turing bracket, I wonder where Larry falls wrt CS
Newton and Turing where many things, but "idiot" was not one of them.
Calling Newton an idiot is like calling Barrack Obama a Japanese geisha, or
Donald Trump a poor black man from the Brazilian favelas.
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Steve
“Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure
enough, things got worse.
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