Please improve these comprehensions (was meaning of [ ])

Rustom Mody rustompmody at gmail.com
Tue Sep 5 22:07:32 EDT 2017


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]



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