On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Denis McMahon <denismfmcma...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 20:35:47 -0500, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > >> On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 18:25:48 +1300, Gregory Ewing >> <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> declaimed the following: > >>>That's like saying that when teaching woodwork we shouldn't let people >>>use hammers, we should make them use rocks to bang nails in, because it >>>will make them better carpenters in the long run. > >> NAILS???? >> Nails were verboten in my high school wood working class... >> We used dowels and glue; chisels to carve dove-tails; etc. > > We were allowed to use screws, but they had to be brass, not steel, we > had to drill appropriate clearance and pilot holes, and countersink where > appropriate.
Ohhhh we used to DREAM of using screws! We were given steel shafts and had to tap the threads into them with our teeth. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list