On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 4:00 AM Dennis Lee Bieber <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Jul 2020 09:51:42 +1000, Chris Angelico <[email protected]> > declaimed the following: > > >On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 9:17 AM dn via Python-list > ><[email protected]> wrote: > >> However, questions remain:- > >> > >> Robot: any machine or mechanical device that operates automatically with > >> humanlike skill > >> > > > >What about a human that operates mechanically with merely robot-like > >skill? I'm pretty sure I've spoken to them on the phone many times. > > Would that be... a computer? > > > > Using the original meaning of "one who computes" >
I suspect that even that is too generous for some of them. They merely follow instructions like good little automatons, until the caller gives up... ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
