Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!not-for-mail From: Grant Edwards Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Python for philosophers Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 14:27:07 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl.comtrol.com X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1368714427 14084 64.122.56.22 (16 May 2013 14:27:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 14:27:07 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:45425 On 2013-05-16, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > On 05/15/2013 08:01 PM, Ned Batchelder wrote: >> On 5/11/2013 4:03 PM, Citizen Kant wrote: >>> Don't get me wrong. I can see the big picture and the amazing things that programmers write on Python, it's just that my question points to the lowest level of it's existence. >> >> Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Python is a tool, it does what you tell it. To make an analogy, or maybe to clarify your philosophical view of the world, consider a hammer. What is the "lowest level of its existence"? >> >> --Ned. > > All You People are making this way too hard. To understand how > questions like the OPs ought be resolved, please read: > > http://pvspade.com/Sartre/cookbook.html Yea, I've decided we're being trolled... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I'd like MY data-base at JULIENNED and stir-fried! gmail.com