Re: [tlug] Fortran --> Python (was linux engineer)

[Attila Kinali <attila@example.com>]

On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 14:13:10 +0900
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com> wrote:

>  > Sometimes i wonder, whether lowering the entrance barrier is a good
>  > thing.
> 
> Alexei Panshin (quoting somebody else, I believe) wrote something
> rather close to "Civilization can be measured by the amount of things
> we can do while paying attention to something else."

Seems to make sense.

> So, it's a good thing (though not unmitigated).  Remember, "worse is
> better."  If that's true for software, how much more true it must be
> of human beings!

That i do not understand. How is worse better? and why? And under which
conditions?

			Attila Kinali

-- 
It is upon moral qualities that a society is ultimately founded. All 
the prosperity and technological sophistication in the world is of no 
use without that foundation.
                 -- Miss Matheson, The Diamond Age, Neil Stephenson