Thank you Python community!

[bartc]

On 19/03/2018 16:08, Etienne Robillard wrote:
> You guys just made me realize something very obvious. :-)
> 
> I'm in the process right now of watching the excellent documentary named 
> "Drugs Inc." on Netflix and I'm basically stunned and deeply concerned 
> about the major opioid epidemic in the US.
> 
> I would like to thank you guys sincerely for helping a lot of people to 
> stay clean, and focus on programming high-level stuff in Python instead 
> of doing some really nasty drugs.
> 
> I'm also wondering, could we exploit this strategy even further to help 
> people willing to stop doing drugs by teaching them some stuff in Python?

You either code in Python, or you're forced to take drugs? Got it.

> The trick I think is to let people use programming as a way to socialize 
> more in order to stimulate or distract their minds whiling keeping them 
> away from drugs.

I've often wondered what the guys who invented C (around 1970) must have 
been smoking to have come up with some of those ideas.


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bartc