ActiveState going the wrong way

rainy sill at localhost.kitenet.net
Wed Apr 11 05:30:20 EDT 2001


On Wed, 11 Apr 2001 09:27:38 +0200, Alex Martelli <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote:
>"Daniel Berlin" <dan at cgsoftware.com> wrote in message
>news:mailman.986967914.17053.python-list at python.org...
>
>"""
>Maniac <Maniac at alltel.net> writes:
>> I strongly disagree lack of autocompletion will in the short run (in your
>> words lower productivity)  but will also increase the skill of the
>> programmer by forcing you to look up functions and other such stuff that
>> you accidently store in your brain and you are EGAD "forced" to learn
>> something that the next time you're coding you happen to remember the
>> function.  The process of "learning" can't be forgotten
>
>Whoops, sorry to blow your entire argument out of the water, but this
>entire paragraph is pure bullshit.
>"""
>
>Don't worry, the "we should eschew this helpful technology because
>our minds would atrophize" brigade won't be deflected by any such
>trifles as common sense, science, or realizing they're spewing BS.
>
>They've been at it since (first historically recorded case AFAIK)
>the Druids repressed that newfangled invention, reading and writing,

Even before that, IIRC. I remember some reference to an egyptian god
(perhaps plato or some greek from that period wrote about this though)
who basically said the same thing.

>as it would damage people's abilities to memorize things if they
>knew they could always look them up again (but I would not be
>surprised to learn that there were some of them around earlier in
>Lascaux, decrying this novel technology of painting -- how it
>would damage the users' ability to actually recognize animals
>to be hunted, if they got too familiar with the abstractions
>involved in their painted forms, etc, etc...).
>
>
>Alex
>
>
>


-- 

	Andrei



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