[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r62848 - python/trunk/Objects/setobject.c

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Thu, 8 May 2008 10:21:54 pm Christian Heimes wrote:
> Barry Warsaw schrieb:
> > This is exactly what I'm thinking about!
>
> -1
>
> A technical solution never solves a social problem. It's just going
> to cause more social and technical problems.

That's certainly not true. The social problem of people throwing 
their "night soil" out into the streets had a technical solution, 
namely sewerage systems. Or if you prefer a more computer-related 
example, the social problem of having people on a shared computer have 
access to files you don't want them to have access to is solved by the 
technical solution of file permissions and ACLs.

I have no opinion on this specific problem, but it is equally fallacious 
to say that social problems_never_ have technical solutions as it is to 
say that they _always_ have technical solutions.



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Steven D'Aprano