Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info>: > On Sun, 06 Apr 2014 23:10:47 +0300, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >> It is academic because the author, Raymond Smullyan, was a professor >> of philosophy and, more importantly, my professor selected that as a >> textbook for us graduate students. > > Ah. Well they do that, don't they? I've always consider the ability of > professors to select their own book as text to be a classic case of > conflict of interest. They're supposed to pick the best book, not > necessarily the one that earns them money.
Note that "my professor" above was not Raymond Smullyan. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list