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Re: Python PygLatin

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On 5/8/2016 10:53 AM, alister wrote:
> On Mon, 09 May 2016 03:12:14 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 8 May 2016 08:21 pm, Cai Gengyang wrote:
>>
>>> If one looks at the Forbes List, you will see that there are 4
>>> programmers amongst the top ten richest people in the world (Bill
>>> Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison and Jeff Bezos) , a very large
>>> percentage. Science and Technology is in a sense the most egalitarian
>>> field in the world, because it involves using your brains and
>>> creativity. You don't need to have a father who is a director at
>>> Goldman Sachs or a mother who is the admissions officer at Harvard to
>>> succeed in this line.
>> Bill Gates III's father was a prominent lawyer, his mother was on the
>> board of directors for First Interstate BancSystem and United Way, and
>> one of his grandfathers was a national bank president. Gates himself
>> went to Harvard.
>>
>> Zuckerberg's paternal grandparents were successful middle class,
>> described as  being the first on the block to own a colour TV. (This was
>> back in the days when colour TVs were an expensive toy that few could
>> afford.) His parents were also very successful professionals: a dentist
>> and a psychiatrist. And he too went to Harvard. Despite the jeans and
>> tee-shirts Zuckerberg is known for wearing, he's firmly from the
>> professional/upper class.
>>
>> Bezos comes from a family of land-holders from Texas. His grandfather
>> was regional director of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, and was
>> financially successful enough to retire at an early age. He didn't go to
>> Harvard, but he did go to Princeton.
>>
>> Ellison is the son of an unwed mother who gave him up for adoption by
>> her aunt and uncle, comfortably middle-class. That makes him the closest
>> out of the group as a "regular guy".
> And at least 2 of the above reached their position using business
> practices that could be described as less than 100% honorable & above
> board.

What do you expect from people who haven't graduated from Harvard? :P

Thank you,

Chris R.

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Python PygLatin Cai Gengyang <gengyangcai@gmail.com> - 2016-05-08 03:21 -0700
  Re: Python PygLatin Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-05-09 03:12 +1000
    Re: Python PygLatin alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2016-05-08 17:53 +0000
      Re: Python PygLatin Christopher Reimer <christopher_reimer@icloud.com> - 2016-05-08 11:01 -0700
        Re: Python PygLatin alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2016-05-09 08:52 +0000
      Re: Python PygLatin Cai Gengyang <gengyangcai@gmail.com> - 2016-05-08 21:51 -0700
        Re: Python PygLatin alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2016-05-09 09:12 +0000
  Re: Python PygLatin Robin Koch <robin.koch@t-online.de> - 2016-05-09 12:21 +0200
  Re: Python PygLatin Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2016-05-09 07:54 -0700
  Re: Python PygLatin Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2016-05-09 09:01 -0600

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