Re: Python for philosophers

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Date	2013-05-11 13:10 -0700
Subject	Re: Python for philosophers
From	Mark Janssen <dreamingforward@gmail.com>
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On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Citizen Kant <citizenkant@gmail.com> wrote:
>[...] the starting question I make to myself about Python is: which is the single
> and most basic use of Python as the entity it is? I mean, beside
> programming, what's the single and most basic result one can expect from
> "interacting" with it directly (interactive mode)? I roughly came to the
> idea that Python could be considered as an economic mirror for data, one
> that mainly mirrors the data the programmer types on its black surface, not
> exactly as the programmer originally typed it, but expressed in the most
> economic way possible. That's to say, for example, if one types >>>1+1
> Python reflects >>>2. When data appears between apostrophes, then the mirror
> reflects, again, the same but expressed in the most economic way possible
> (that's to say without the apostrophes).

Wow.  You must be from another planet.  Find Socrates if you wish to
know these things.  He's from there also.

A-dam.

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Re: Python for philosophers Mark Janssen <dreamingforward@gmail.com> - 2013-05-11 13:10 -0700
  Re: Python for philosophers alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2013-05-11 15:16 -0700
    Re: Python for philosophers rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-05-11 21:22 -0700
      Re: Python for philosophers rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-05-11 21:45 -0700
        Re: Python for philosophers Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-05-12 05:17 +0000
          Re: Python for philosophers Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2013-05-12 04:15 -0400
            Re: Python for philosophers Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-05-12 14:32 +0000
          Re: Python for philosophers Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-05-12 13:25 -0400
      Re: Python for philosophers Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-12 14:47 +1000

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