Sriram Srinivasan schrieb: > I guess why every programming language has some kind of a 'standard > library' built in within it. In my view it must not be called as a > 'library' at all. what it does > is like a 'bunch of built-in programs ready-made to do stuff'. > > Lets see what a 'library' does: > > 1. offers books for customers > 1.1 lets user select a book by genre, etc > 1.2 lets user to use different books of same genre, etc > 1.3 lets user to use books by same author, etc for different genre > > 2. keeps track of all the books + their genre > 2.1 first knows what all books it has at present > 2.2 when new book comes it is added to the particular shelf sorted by > genre,author,edition, etc.. > 2.3 when books become old they are kept separately for future reference > 2.4 very old books can be sent to a museum/discarded > > I guess no standard library does the minimum of this but wants to be > called a library.
I guess you're simply stretching the "library" metaphor far beyond its usefulness :) Georg _______________________________________________ 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
