On Fri, 25 Aug 2017 01:27 pm, Rustom Mody wrote: > People should be free to dislike who they like to dislike > However… > Calling Newton an idiot is ok… if you are not a physicist (flat-earther??) > Calling Turing an idiot is ok if you dont like computers (Luddite??) > Given that for most people who have gone through a (½ decent) CS education > Chomsky is in the Turing bracket, I wonder where Larry falls wrt CS
Newton and Turing where many things, but "idiot" was not one of them. Calling Newton an idiot is like calling Barrack Obama a Japanese geisha, or Donald Trump a poor black man from the Brazilian favelas. -- Steve “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list