Apparently hitting "Send" when I intended to hit "Save" to come back 
and edit the message further is also "intuitive", since it involved no 
conscious thought. Sorry about that.

Aside from cleaning up or removing some of the unfinished paragraphs, 
one of the major points I intended to make is that just a few 
weeks ago we had someone on this list maintaining (if my recollection is 
correct) that the obscure, cryptic, pseudo-mathematical syntax of APL is 
"intuitive" and therefore much better than Python's syntax. He was 
apparently perfectly sincere in this opinion.

I'm sticking to my conclusion: people misuse "intuitive" to the point 
that it is a meaningless term of approval or disapproval. If they like 
something, they claim it is "intuitive", and if they don't, it's 
"unintuitive".


-- 
Steven
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