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On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 10:51:45 +0100, lipska the kat
<lipskathekat@yahoo.co.uk> declaimed the following in
gmane.comp.python.general:

> 
> The point I'm obviously struggling to make is that words convey concepts
> The word Person conveys a whole lifetime of experience of People and as 
> imperfect human beings many of us are unable to tease out 'bits of being 
> a person' that are relevant to the system we are developing. Inevitably 
> other seemingly irreversibly entwined bits keep popping up to cloud our 
> thinking. This is my experience, not an isolated case but one that has 
> popped up again and again.
>
	You've never considered writing a genealogy program, have you? One
that never acknowledges "Person"?

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