On Thu, 8 May 2008 10:21:54 pm Christian Heimes wrote: > Barry Warsaw schrieb: > > This is exactly what I'm thinking about! > > -1 > > A technical solution never solves a social problem. It's just going > to cause more social and technical problems.
That's certainly not true. The social problem of people throwing their "night soil" out into the streets had a technical solution, namely sewerage systems. Or if you prefer a more computer-related example, the social problem of having people on a shared computer have access to files you don't want them to have access to is solved by the technical solution of file permissions and ACLs. I have no opinion on this specific problem, but it is equally fallacious to say that social problems_never_ have technical solutions as it is to say that they _always_ have technical solutions. -- Steven D'Aprano _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
