In a message of Sat, 10 Apr 2004 21:21:55 +0200, Laura Creighton writes:
happy easter and passover.
any of you lot done the meyers-briggs perslonality test?
I am INTP, but also very, very, werd because I am at the 50% level at Introversion vs extroversion, also at the 'precieving vs judging' so if you score me as ENTJ, you ok. and most weirdly, i am scoringf off the scale as N not sensing
dear god i am embarassed. have your machine crash in the middle of a thing, and its sent. this seems so boasting to me, which is why it was a rough outside. but half a loaf is worse than none .... The cool thing about me meyers-brigg wise, though is that i am consistently in the 95% of the N, intuitive, not sensing. I am the intuitive person's intuitive person. It's difficult to score as scarily high as i do -- it basically means you are so lousy at sensing that you hard can survive beibng alive. Makes for happy mathematicians, though. :_) and uinlike most people who take personality tests, i basically desribe me as a happy person satisfied with being me. In other words, I am weird and i like it. But, yoy see, i know arthur, where this started. And I respect him, forever, for being good at what i can barely funtion at all. I suspect that arthur will max out on the 'sensing' end of the meyers briggs test, though i could be wrong. It is easy to be a better senser than me, just that i think that arthur is superlative at it. what is really cool is that arthur and i, despite widely differing personaity types and backgrounds, are in common agreement that 'python is beautiful' (for all its warts that we want to tweak) this is amazing when you think of it. But Beauty transcends. whuch is why i hoped to not post the last fragment, but if you got that, you get the rest. most embarassingly, but bravely yours, Laura
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Laura Creighton wrote:
what is really cool is that arthur and i, despite widely differing personaity types and backgrounds, are in common agreement that
'python is beautiful'
(for all its warts that we want to tweak)
this is amazing when you think of it. But Beauty transcends.
What makes Python so cool is that its designers (Guido and company) actually care about not making it hard for beginners, even children, to learn and understand it. That level of caring for beginners is very, very rare among language designers or software designers in general. Funny thing, the more they use it the more the experts love Python too... Beauty transcends, simplicity rules.
What makes Python so cool is that its designers (Guido and company) actually care about not making it hard for beginners, even children, to learn and understand it. That level of caring for beginners is very, very rare among language designers or software designers in general.
Here's a bit where a problem is, though, IMO. Almost by definition, the Python designers are among the people on the planet furthest from the experience of *being* beginners. Yet they are folks used to being experts - and respected as experts. Well, to cut short...problems ensue. Art
what is really cool is that arthur and i, despite widely differing personaity types and backgrounds, are in common agreement that
'python is beautiful'
Yeah, but liking Python just fine the way I found it has done little but get me in trouble. New tact. What the hell's with this white space business, anyway. ;) Art
participants (3)
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Arthur
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David Handy
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Laura Creighton