On Wednesday, September 6, 2017 at 6:58:29 AM UTC+5:30, Rustom Mody wrote: > On Wednesday, September 6, 2017 at 6:27:24 AM UTC+5:30, Steve D'Aprano wrote: > > On Wed, 6 Sep 2017 12:19 am, Rustom Mody wrote: > > > What were Turing, Church, von Neumann, even Knuth by training? > > > Mathematicians > > > or CS-ists? > > > > > > And what are the contributions of Turing, Church, von Neumann, Knuth to > > > CS? > > > > Who cares? We're talking about Python, not Computer Science. > Of course nothing to be surprised here: You know more java than old java-heads > And more lisp than John McCarthy 😉
Also noteworthy here: You know more about list comprehensions than their inventor — Greg Ewing [No I normally would not call Greg their inventor but in this case following through your logic that python exists in a historical, contextual vacuum] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
