George Sakkis wrote: > First off, I never implied someone's stupid just because we don't > happen to agree on everything.
brushing off a carefully thought out design and the process that led up to it with "it's just like picking between two random colors" is a pretty direct way of saying that you consider yourself so much smarter than the people involved that you don't even care about what they're doing. > As for Mike's answer, I went back and > read it again; please do the same. He doesn't address HCI reasons at > all, it's a purely technical argument by pointing out an inconsistency > of Java (which kinda distracts from the main point but that's ok). HCI is all about picking the *right* technical solutions, though. Python's designed for humans, and humans aren't robots; the solutions you choose and the way you integrate them affect how people understands them and use them, on many different levels. what Mike wrote about was one such case (which follows from 1b in GvR's post), where Python's way of doing things helped people avoid a certain real-life problem, without even noticing. seriously, if you think that HCI (or for that matter, design) is only about what color you use for a technical solution designed by real engineers, you've pretty much missed the point of the whole field. and you've pretty much missed the point of Python's design. </F> _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
