On Saturday, March 21, 2015 at 11:58:43 AM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Rustom Mody : > > > However I am talking some historical facts, viz: Because some nuts did > > the 20th century equivalent of: "Break each others' heads about how > > many angels can dance on the head of a pin" therefore much of the > > world around us exists as it does (for better or worse) including my > > (and I guess your) degree and job. > > The deep philosophical questions around the year 1900 in both > mathematics and physics were left embarrassingly open. The way out was > to stop caring.
Ive collected some of the above points and some from earlier threads here: http://blog.languager.org/2015/03/cs-history-0.html Anyone un-mentioned there that wants to figure -- or conversely :-) -- just give me the say-so. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list