Re: Why Python When There Is Perl?

On 26 Mar 2024 03:56:41 GMT, rbowman wrote:

Agriculture was the downfall of the human race. Once you have people
hanging around the same place too long they figure they need a hierarchy
to run the show and the next thing you know you've got the government.

Government organizes a police force and an army. The police force prevents
your fellow citizens from stealing from you, while the army prevents
outsiders from stealing from you. The result is you get to live a more
peaceful life.

You get division of labour, so somebody gets to specialize in better
healthcare, somebody else in nicer textiles, yet somebody else in more
robust house building and so on. You get to progress beyond subsistence
farming, to having a surplus harvest; that surplus can be traded to others
in return for goods or services that you have neither the time nor the
skills to provide for yourself.

Next thing you know, you have urban life.