• bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> Dec 26 2010
• Brad Roberts <braddr slice-2.puremagic.com> Dec 26 2010

bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:

Adam D. Ruppe:

 Remember, a lot of your posts are actually very subjective. Those
 things tend to get a lot of debate without an objective right or
 wrong coming out of it. It could go both ways.


Right. But I have discussed a lot about usability & egonomy matters in the
Python newsgroups too (some thousands posts), and that place was somewhat
different. Python users seem to take ergonomy more seriously, they are more
interested in this topic. For Python devs usability is one of the most
important things (because often for Python performance is less important than
usability). I don't know, maybe it's just a cultural difference among the two
newsgroups.

Bye,
bearophile

Brad Roberts <braddr slice-2.puremagic.com> writes:

On Sun, 26 Dec 2010, bearophile wrote:

 Adam D. Ruppe:
 
 Remember, a lot of your posts are actually very subjective. Those
 things tend to get a lot of debate without an objective right or
 wrong coming out of it. It could go both ways.


 Right. But I have discussed a lot about usability & egonomy matters in 
 the Python newsgroups too (some thousands posts), and that place was 
 somewhat different. Python users seem to take ergonomy more seriously, 
 they are more interested in this topic. For Python devs usability is one 
 of the most important things (because often for Python performance is 
 less important than usability). I don't know, maybe it's just a cultural 
 difference among the two newsgroups.
 
 Bye,
 bearophile


I don't use python, so I don't hang out on those groups.  But for me, my 
objection to your style posts is that you state your opinions as if they 
were facts.  They're not and shouldn't be presented as if they were.

Later,
Brad