On 5/11/2013 4:03 PM, Citizen Kant wrote:
Hi,
this could be seen as an extravagant subject but that is not my
original purpose. I still don't know if I want to become a programmer
or not. At this moment I'm just inspecting the environment. I'm making
my way to Python (and OOP in general) from a philosophical perspective
or point of view and try to set the more global definition of Python's
core as an "entity". In order to do that, and following Wittgenstein's
indication about that the true meaning of words doesn't reside on
dictionaries but in the use that we make of them, 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).
So, would it be legal (true) to define Python's core as an entity that
mirrors whatever data one presents to it (or feed it with) showing
back the most shortened expression of that data?
Don't get me wrong. I can see the big picture and the amazing things
that programmers write on Python, it's just that my question points to
the lowest level of it's existence.
Thanks a lot for your time.
Python is straightforward: you write instructions, and it executes
them. At its core, that's all it does. Why does the core have to be
any different than that?
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