On Tue, Dec 10, 2002, Guido van Rossum wrote:

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/000750

While I personally agree with the comments on that URL, I think Aaron has what I call "a shoe problem", as in, being unable to walk in another person's shoes. I've been doing enough teaching of enough different subjects in enough different venues over a long enough period of time that I've concluded that a lot of people really do learn better (or at least feel more comfortable) with someone teaching orally. There are lots of things that can be done to increase the effectiveness of a presentation, of course, and I believe that many of Aaron's criticisms apply more to poor presentations than to the fact that the basis of the presentation is speech. That said, I'd sure like a conference run more along the lines of what Aaron suggests. What I'd like to see discussed -- although maybe this list isn't the place for it -- is ways to accomodate multiple learning and communication styles within a single social/professional event. -- Aahz (aahz@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "To me vi is Zen. To use vi is to practice zen. Every command is a koan. Profound to the user, unintelligible to the uninitiated. You discover truth everytime you use it." --reddy@lion.austin.ibm.com