[BangPypers] designing programs

[Noufal Ibrahim]

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon at au-kbc.org> wrote:
> On Friday 25 June 2010 14:23:19 Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote:
>> > well, we seemed have almost reached a consensus - now all we need to
>> > decide is
>> > the pros and cons of pen versus pencil.
>>
>>  I support pencil because,
>>
>>  1. It can be sharpened
>>  2. It doesn't cause those splotches in your hand and dress like a pen
>>  3. There is only one colour to choose - so no confusion between blue
>>   and black etc.
>>  4. It is the simplest contraption in the world which consists of just
>>     two parts and no moving ones.
>>  5. It has space-age glamour since the Russian cosmonauts used it
>>   to write during their space flights.
>>
>
> anyway I suddenly remembered back in 1980s I had a pen and notebook and used
> to write large amounts of pseudocode in it - I remember spending a week in a
> farm with no electricity and writing enormous amounts of code. So I have
> bought a nice notebook and a gel pen. I am too lazy to sharpen a pencil and
> also sharpeners are not allowed in hand baggage on planes. So I am good to go.

Mechanical pencil? Point 1 is invalid since it's always sharp. 2 and 3
hold true. 4 is grossly violated. I'll get back to you on 5 after I
contact my Russian comrades.


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