Well, those kinds of claims are kind of par for the course for the Python community. I remember that it was commonly claimed that Python 1.5 had the "full power of the lambda calculus", when all it had was anonymous…
Indeed, even though a "series of tubes" is a relevant analogy, it's still plenty obvious that Senator Stevens is clueless with regard to the Internet.
What's there to disagree with? It's one big glittering generality and I wouldn't be at all surprised that the author is grievously misrepresenting the positions of his opponents.
Well, those kinds of claims are kind of par for the course for the Python community. I remember that it was commonly claimed that Python 1.5 had the "full power of the lambda calculus", when all it had was anonymous…
Indeed, even though a "series of tubes" is a relevant analogy, it's still plenty obvious that Senator Stevens is clueless with regard to the Internet.
What's there to disagree with? It's one big glittering generality and I wouldn't be at all surprised that the author is grievously misrepresenting the positions of his opponents.