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| From | Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> |
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| Subject | Re: Python is awesome (Project Euler) |
| Date | Mon, 31 Dec 2012 17:36:15 +0000 (UTC) |
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On 2012-12-31, Alex <foo@email.invalid> wrote:
> Yes. Although sometimes I fear that we are becoming a society of
> end-users who rely too much on the capability of our tools and fail to
> take the time to understand the fundamentals upon which those tools are
> based or cultivate the problem-solving skills that Project Euler
> appears to be trying to hone.
That's probably pretty much what somebody said 10K years ago when
people started to specialize in different occupations and hunters
started getting their spear-points by bartering for them with dried
meat instead of everybody flaking their own out of chunks of flint.
--
Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Being a BALD HERO
at is almost as FESTIVE as a
gmail.com TATTOOED KNOCKWURST.
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Python is awesome (Project Euler) Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-12-31 09:18 -0500
Re: Python is awesome (Project Euler) "Alex" <foo@email.invalid> - 2012-12-31 16:46 +0000
Re: Python is awesome (Project Euler) Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2012-12-31 17:36 +0000
Re: Python is awesome (Project Euler) Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-12-31 13:45 -0500
Re: Python is awesome (Project Euler) Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-01-02 19:11 +0000
Re: Python is awesome (Project Euler) Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-01-02 21:38 -0500
Re: Python is awesome (Project Euler) Ramchandra Apte <maniandram01@gmail.com> - 2013-01-02 05:12 -0800
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