On 20/05/2017 14:49, Steve D'Aprano wrote:
On Sat, 20 May 2017 09:13 pm, bartc wrote:
Try running the program.
(I did that but I can't follow this style of coding so can't help.)
Chris is within his rights to refuse to run untrusted code downloaded over
the internet.
It's not even the security aspect: the code is fairly short, and doesn't
appear to be obfuscated or do anything nasty.
But its a matter of fairness: we're volunteers, not slaves or paid workers,
and we get to choose on what problems we work on.
I think of these as little puzzles to solve.
And in this case, it had a nifty little display; but I couldn't even get
to the point where I could use that display setup as a start point and
add my own logic to make it work.
(Could such a program be implemented using simple linear logic? I dusted
off some old, half-finished graphics library of mine [not Python] and
tried emulating a 4-function calculator. The answer was yes, it could.
For a simple app like this, you don't need classes or lambdas or
whatever else it is using; a simple loop will do.)
We're not being paid to solve people's problems, we're doing it from a sense
of community (and maybe to show off, a bit). We've only got so much time
and energy for solving people's problems, and the more vague those problems
are, the less likely we are to care enough to put the work in to solve it.
Give us an interesting problem, and some of us will put *hours* of work into
it. But give us something vague or boring or trivial, and What's In It For
Us?
OK, if I ever get stuck with a Python problem, I'd better make it
interesting then!
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