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by CRConrad 763 days ago
If the headline were "The Earth Is Flat", would you need to click any links to know it's false?

But yes, actually I did. And it turned out to be wrong from the start (as shown by the obviously false headline): "...but it does all that using react (not JS)." Yeah well, but since React is a framework library in JavaScript, that IS using JavaScript.

For all I know the functions in LibC could also add up to a Turing-complete system, but that still doesn't make LibC a programming language either. It's C. So it seems "Turing complete" =/= "programming language". HTH!
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urban_alien 760 days ago
If the headline were "The Earth is Flat" the article could be about a lot of things, such as a sci-fi story. So yeah, it would require a click to know if it's "false".

What is Cpython if not a C library? I imagine that makes Python not a programming language as well?

The title is obviously a provocation to spark discussion, and you could have done a better job engaging in it instead of dividing everything into true or false. "HTH"!

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CRConrad 754 days ago
Or you could have done a better job posting an article worth engaging with, right? Getting snitty with the only engagement you actually got seems... If nothing else, at least counterproductive.
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CRConrad 752 days ago
Also, BTW:

1) Since by that point I had clicked on it, I knew it wasn't something like "a sci-fi story" but an actual statement.

2) Sci-fi stories aren't factual truth, so yeah, in the strict literal sense they're "false" too.

There, hope you're happy with the discussion you sparked. Hey, if you agree with the author (or maybe are him, for all I know), you could of course have tried to reinforce his arguments by rational discussion, but you chose not to. I didn't run this discusion all by myself.

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