Sujet : Re: OT ; Re: The joy of FORTRAN
De : bowman (at) *nospam* montana.com (rbowman)
Groupes : alt.folklore.computers comp.os.linux.miscDate : 01. Oct 2024, 20:03:31
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On Mon, 30 Sep 2024 23:34:55 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
And the Athenians, of course, came up with what they called “democracy”.
We use the term nowadays, but we use it for quite a different concept
from the way they practised it (because our concepts of equality and
fairness have evolved a bit beyond the era of slavery and women as
property).
iirc before they managed to weaken each other to allow external enemies to
take over the whole mess Sparta prevailed.
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