On Thursday, April 13, 2017 at 2:10:16 PM UTC+5:30, Deborah Swanson wrote: > Rustom Mody wrote, on Monday, April 10, 2017 11:50 PM > > > > On Monday, April 10, 2017 at 11:26:47 AM UTC+5:30, Deborah Swanson > wrote: > > > The great ancients were no less endowed with intelligence than we > are, > > > they simply directed it to different ends. > > > > And just when I was convinced by the all-knowers that my gpa > > was a monkey you've spoilt my complacence > > Good! It's unhealthy the way modern folk strut around thinking they're > the smartest humans to ever walk this earth. We've gone farther with > technology than any other time or culture, but invention (and > innovation) is only one aspect of intelligence.
Quote from Peter Landin, one of the precursors of modern functional programming: Most papers in computer science describe how their author learned what someone else already knew [And this dates from 60s/70s] Applies beyond just CS… -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
