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Re: Python is awesome (Project Euler)

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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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