On Friday, August 25, 2017 at 9:06:53 AM UTC+5:30, Steve D'Aprano wrote: > 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.
You may find the etymology of idiot interesting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot#Etymology -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
