Re: Python for philosophers

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Date	Wed, 15 May 2013 21:01:27 -0400
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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.

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Re: Python for philosophers Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-05-15 21:01 -0400
  Re: Python for philosophers Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2013-05-15 20:17 -0500
    Re: Python for philosophers Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-05-15 23:43 -0400
      Re: Python for philosophers Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2013-05-15 23:57 -0500
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      Re: Python for philosophers Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2013-05-15 23:55 -0500
    Re: Python for philosophers rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-05-15 22:08 -0700
    Re: Python for philosophers Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2013-05-16 01:24 -0500
    Re: Python for philosophers Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-05-16 14:27 +0000
      Re: Python for philosophers Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2013-05-16 12:50 -0500

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