Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 03 Apr 2007 12:26:47 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > > "Steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> Yes it is [a homework question]. > >> > >> Where else to ask for help but here. > > > > That's between you, your teacher, and your teaching institute's > > plagiarism guidelines. > > Plagiarism is a serious example of fraud, which is not only a crime > but is unethical as well. You don't need to be a student or an > academic to commit plagiarism. Anybody can commit plagiarism. > > If we applied the plagiarism guidelines that university students > labour under to the rest of us, perhaps we'd be a little less quick > to toss accusations of plagiarism around so easily.
I agree with the severity of such an accusation, which is why I didn't make it in this case. -- \ "[T]he question of whether machines can think [...] is about as | `\ relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim." -- | _o__) Edsger W. Dijkstra | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
