On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 2:56 AM, Larry Martell <larry.mart...@gmail.com> wrote: >> And I don't think >> Larry was actually offended; it's just that some questions don't >> really have easy answers - imagine someone asking a great >> mathematician "But how do you KNOW that 2 + 2 is 4? Where's it written >> down?"... all he can say is "It is". > > Yeah, I'm on a lot of lists and lately I've seen a lot of 'I'm not a > programmer, but I want to write code and I need someone to tell me > how." Gets to you after a while.
Too true. Those same people are unlikely to go to a gathering of civil engineers and say "I'm no expert, but I want to build a bridge and I need someone to tell me how", yet somehow it's expected to be possible with software. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
