[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r62848 - python/trunk/Objects/setobject.c (original) (raw)
Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Thu May 8 16:14:55 CEST 2008
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On Thu, 8 May 2008 10:21:54 pm Christian Heimes wrote:
Barry Warsaw schrieb: > This is exactly what I'm thinking about!
-1 A technical solution never solves a social problem. It's just going to cause more social and technical problems.
That's certainly not true. The social problem of people throwing their "night soil" out into the streets had a technical solution, namely sewerage systems. Or if you prefer a more computer-related example, the social problem of having people on a shared computer have access to files you don't want them to have access to is solved by the technical solution of file permissions and ACLs.
I have no opinion on this specific problem, but it is equally fallacious to say that social problems_never_ have technical solutions as it is to say that they always have technical solutions.
-- Steven D'Aprano
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