Science And Math Was: Python's Lisp heritage

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In article <mailman.1019491732.12046.python-list at python.org>,
 Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters <mertz at gnosis.cx> wrote:
> 
> Alex may disagree with me here, but I think my opinion here is quite
> close to the middle Wittgenstein, or the _Philosohy of Mathematics_ and
> the _Blue and Brown Books_. 

Is it? I think different people understand radically different things 
when they read Wittgenstein. 

> It is also very close to some of Godel's
> remarks, in his philosophical moods.

I recall that Russell reports having had discussions with Goedel, 
Einstein and other distinguished emigres in America. He found their 
ideas impossibly 'Platonist', and he could not abide them. 


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