Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!selfless.tophat.at!news.glorb.com!news.astraweb.com!border5.newsrouter.astraweb.com!not-for-mail From: Ben Finney Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: checking if a list is empty References: <9hYwp.5805$xo2.3333@newsfe07.iad> <4dc502c7$0$29991$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <8354770a-d69d-4132-b0ba-2d610eab2fe7@d26g2000prn.googlegroups.com> <8das98-nd8.ln1@svn.schaathun.net> X-Public-Key-ID: 0xAC128405 X-Public-Key-Fingerprint: 517C F14B B2F3 98B0 CB35 4855 B8B2 4C06 AC12 8405 X-Public-Key-URL: http://www.benfinney.id.au/contact/bfinney-pubkey.asc X-Post-From: Ben Finney Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 16:46:38 +1000 Message-ID: <87zkmsifg1.fsf@benfinney.id.au> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:j3ZTq63d6oYTEupXVue5Z79Ribs= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 22 Organization: Unlimited download news at news.astraweb.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 9504323f.news.astraweb.com X-Trace: DXC=2JS=`>0HUQd<^_jE4S2b@oL?0kYOcDh@jXb<8`kRh<;`B2^i4h45i\j]G;2>V^?kWcbEW9A[5UK?eNZ[SL`C\Kgc[k=fYVfDa?o Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:5212 Hans Georg Schaathun writes: > On Wed, 11 May 2011 20:31:45 -0700 (PDT), alex23 > wrote: > : On May 12, 7:24 am, harrismh777 wrote: > : > We need to move away from 'canned apps' to a new day where > : > the masses can sit down to their computer and solve new problems with it > : > through intuitive language skills.  Why not? > : > : Because the vast majority of them don't seem to want to be bothered? > > Why does that matter? There is a sizeable group who need computers > for purposes not (sufficiently) supported by the `canned apps'. Those people, outnumbered by the masses as you say, are thereby not themselves “the masses”. -- \ “Hey Homer! You're late for English!” “Pff! English, who needs | `\ that? I'm never going to England!” —Barney & Homer, _The | _o__) Simpsons_ | Ben Finney