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On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:48:45 +1100, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:

> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Steven D'Aprano
> <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> > On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:33:21 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
> >
> >> What's your language's "special feature"? I like to keep track of
> >> languages using a "slug" - a simple one-sentence (or less) statement of
> >> when it's right to use this language above others. For example, Python
> >> is optimized for 'rapid deployment'.
> >
> > "Python will save the world"
> >
> > http://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2010/07/saving-world-with-python.html
> 
> I don't think Python has a hard disk big enough to save all of it...
> 
	Since it would, technically, need to save it's own storage in order
to record the state of all the atoms, it becomes a recursive problem.
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