[Edu-sig] creating an interface vs. using one (Michel Paul)

[Dethe Elza]

On 25-Sep-06, at 8:06 AM, kirby urner wrote:

> I think the discussion re VPython was worth having.  Differing points
> of view were clearly expressed about a matter of substance.
>
> Your assessment of the signal to noise ratio suggests you're  
> wearing ear muffs.

Hardly.  It's an assessment that's been made many times, by many  
people, some of whom have left the list because of it.  In fact the  
noise on this list caused at least one competing list to be started  
just to avoid it.

It would be one thing if Kirby trolled Art, or Art trolled Kirby, and  
you each recognized it as that, but you both seem unable to resist  
responding to each others trolls.  Which is too bad, because you both  
have valuable points of view and useful things to say, but I (and  
surely others) have started to filter it out because we're tired of  
wading through the pointless (and frequently juvenile) feuding.

Now, as with any other time I've tried to step into this brawl to  
break it up, I'm sure I will be told off for it and soon wish I'd  
stayed in lurk mode.  Oh well.

--Dethe


When all else fails, men turn to reason.  --Abba Eban