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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Why Python When There Is Perl? Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2024 07:33:44 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <17be420c4f90bfc7$63225$1585792$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <17be75acfaf8f0f4$2017$3384359$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <17bebbae334656b9$74345$2906873$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <17bf321f9c15028e$2$2218499$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <17bf5ce92e8c43b4$672$1351842$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2024 07:33:45 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="6bac8e0fd82579f167fcd77dc15169c7"; logging-data="3229244"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18Kc1vF9ViiJ8tNnaZFzYqf" User-Agent: Pan/0.155 (Kherson; fc5a80b8) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+OZd0aoZ67Vwcis8ud1fY8kaEZQ= Bytes: 2514 On Mon, 25 Mar 2024 21:23:48 -0500, Physfitfreak wrote: > But agriculture, as creator of math, is at the least 7 thousand years > old!... Agriculture on its own doesn’t need much maths. Mediaeval Europeans were able to manage their farms with just Roman numerals, after all. What complicated things in Mesopotamia and Egypt was the periodic flooding. There needed to be a way of keeping records of which farm lots belonged to whom and where their boundaries were, even after all the markers had been washed away. That took something called .. trigonometry. > Today's geographical spread of language comes to help a bit. Anything > non-Semitic that we speak today in, has come from India, from Sanskrit. Semitic languages are part of the Indo-European family, too. > The mother of it all. Hindu ... Maybe you mean “Hindi”? That’s the language; “Hindu” is a religious persuasion.