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Re: Is Python "venerable"?

From Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: Is Python "venerable"?
Date 2013-02-20 09:08 +0000
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rusi wrote:

> Heh! I am reminded:
> Some years ago a new reprint of Knuth's Art of Programming had on the
> back cover something to the effect that this was 'classical CS.'
> 
> So what then is pop-CS, folk-CS?


Knuth's work is undoubtedly classic.

Classic:

1.
of the first or highest quality, class, or rank: a classic piece of work.
2.
serving as a standard, model, or guide: the classic method of teaching 
arithmetic. 


http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/classic


Rui Maciel

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Is Python "venerable"? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-02-19 21:45 -0500
  Re: Is Python "venerable"? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-02-20 03:09 +0000
  Re: Is Python "venerable"? Barry W Brown <brownbar@gmail.com> - 2013-02-19 19:53 -0800
    Re: Is Python "venerable"? Rotwang <sg552@hotmail.co.uk> - 2013-02-20 16:03 +0000
  Re: Is Python "venerable"? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-02-19 23:03 -0500
  Re: Is Python "venerable"? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-02-20 04:15 +0000
    Re: Is Python "venerable"? rh <richard_hubbe11@lavabit.com> - 2013-02-20 11:28 -0800
  Re: Is Python "venerable"? Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> - 2013-02-19 23:10 -0500
  Re: Is Python "venerable"? rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-02-19 20:42 -0800
    Re: Is Python "venerable"? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2013-02-20 09:08 +0000
      Re: Is Python "venerable"? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-02-20 20:20 +1100
        Re: Is Python "venerable"? rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-02-20 02:49 -0800
    Re: Is Python "venerable"? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-02-20 10:19 +0100
  Re: Is Python "venerable"? Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org> - 2013-02-20 06:03 -0500
  Re: Is Python "venerable"? Steve Simmons <square.steve@gmail.com> - 2013-02-20 12:35 +0100
  Re: Is Python "venerable"? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-02-20 22:45 +1100
  Re: Is Python "venerable"? rh <richard_hubbe11@lavabit.com> - 2013-02-20 11:29 -0800
  Re: Is Python "venerable"? Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> - 2013-02-20 10:33 -0500

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