Re: Why Python When There Is Perl?

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

On Tue, 26 Mar 2024 15:25:07 -0500, Physfitfreak wrote:
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On 3/25/2024 10:56 PM, rbowman wrote:
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Agriculture was the downfall of the human race.

 
It led to the concept of ownership. Farmers fought pastoral nomads for
thousands of years because farmers claimed they "owned" the land with
grass on it, and nomads didn't understand that logic one bit, and had to
feed their livestock with the grass on that land.
 
Farmers (i.e. settlers) won.

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Jacob Bronowski, in “The Ascent Of Man”:
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    Genghiz Khan was a nomad and the inventor of a powerful war
    machine. And that conjunction says something important about the
    origins of war in human history. Of course, it’s tempting to close
    one’s eyes to history, and instead to speculate about the roots of
    war in some possible “animal instinct”, as if, like the tiger, we
    still had to kill to live, or, like the robin red-breast, to
    defend a nesting territory. But war--organized war--is not a human
    instinct. It is a highly-planned and cooperative form of theft.
    And that form of theft began ten thousand years ago, when the
    harvesters of wheat accumulated a surplus, and the nomads rode out
    of the desert to rob them of what they themselves could not
    provide.
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Very, very early TV documentary (1971) on the history of science. You
might consider it low-tech nowadays, but I found him an absolutely
riveting presenter. Holocaust survivor, mathematician/philosopher/polymath,
on first-name terms with many of those who worked on the Manhattan Project
... he died not long after completing the series.

It was a great series. Also interesting was his use of an excerpt from
Pink Floyd's "Careful with That Axe Eugene"... the screaming part.

Interesting, a couple of years later that same tune was used as the dance music
for a stripper at Big Al's in Peoria :-D

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You will pioneer the first Martian colony.