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[Christopher Barber]

grante at visi.com (Grant Edwards) writes:

> In article <mailman.1010511911.6400.python-list at python.org>, Mark McEahern wrote:
> 
> >> Users must understand their tools, because modern tools are too powerful,
> >> and pressing incorrect button these days may easiliy lead to people death,
> >> or huge money lost, and all that.
> > 
> > Hmm, I don't really understand how my car works.  
> 
> Not at all?  You don't know the steering wheel does?  How to
> turn on the lights?  What the speedometer reading means?

I know what those things do, but only have a vague understanding of *how*
those things work.
 
> No, but she needs to understand compilers if she want's to use
> them.  

So you need to understand compilers in order to use Python?

- Christopher