Python was designed (was Re: Multi-threading in Python vs Java)

[rusi]

On Friday, October 18, 2013 7:38:30 AM UTC+5:30, zipher wrote:
> >> It's like this.  No matter how you cut it, you're going to get back to
> >> the computers where you load instructions with switches.  At that point,
> >> I'll be very much looking in anticipation to your binary-digit lexer.
> >
> > Why stop there? If you go back far enough, you've got Babbage with his
> > Analytical Engine and his laboriously hand-cast analog gears.
> 
> And there you bring up the heart of it:  the confusion in computer
> science.  thank you.  Babbage's differential engine is not doing
> *computation* , it is doing *physics*.  

And today's computers dont 'do' electronics??

Heres Dijkstra
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD09xx/EWD924.html
and search forward to 'magic'

> We must draw a line somewhere,
> because the digital realm in the machine is so entirely separate from
> the physics (and even the physical hardware), that I could make a
> whole other universe that does not conform to it.  It is a whole other
> ModelOfComputation.
> 
> Q.E.D.  (Who else is going to have to eat a floppy disk here?)


> > Relevant:
> >
> > http://www.xkcd.com/451/

> *winks*.  BTW, all this regarding "models of computation" and such is
> relevant to the discussion only because of one thing:  I like python.
> I will leave that vague response for a later exercise after I get an
> invite from a University (MIT?) to head their Computer Engineering
> department.

Jokes have a propensity to reveal the subconscious of the jokers
[Btw that joke is usually called a pun]