Chris Angelico wrote:
And it's illogical to say "Windows is feeling cranky today" when something inexplicably fails.
Everyone understands that to be a tongue-in-cheek metaphor for "Windows is misbehaving in unfathomable ways", and not "the people who wrote Windows were feeling cranky when they did it". But ideas are not software -- they don't actively *do* anything, so trying to anthropomorphise them doesn't really work. It's hard not to read "this idea is arrogant" as an implied criticism of the person putting forward the idea, even if it wasn't meant that way. There are plenty of good ways of criticising an idea that are clearly about the idea itself, so there is no need to resort to adjectives that could be misunderstood as veiled ad-hominem attacks. -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
