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submitted 3 weeks ago by Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

A tool is thus any kind of thing that lets you do something you wouldn't otherwise have been able to.

Immediately goes on to using a fork as an example. Wtf are you doing eating with a fork that you couldn't be doing with your bare fingers?

Argument is stupid, and falls apart at the first hint of critical thinking.

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 6 points 3 weeks ago

Wtf are you doing eating with a fork that you couldn’t be doing with your bare fingers?

Preach. There was a lot of fuss made when I was in school about "humans are the only animals who use tools" - of course by then all kinds of animals had been documented clearly using tools, but they were still teaching the kiddos (self included) that "humans are special."

I have been making and using software tools for 45 years, a tool is something you use to make a job easier, faster, cleaner, safer, a tool might make the impossible possible, but that's far from a requirement for "tool-ness."