On 30 March 2010 01:00, Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Tarek Ziadé wrote: > > For me a FAQ is a list of questions. We add a new question everytime >> someone >> ask it and it doesn't exists. >> > > The point is that the "FA" in "FAQ" stand for *frequently > asked*. > > One can debate how frequent is necessary to be placed in > this category, but a question that has only been asked once > can hardly be called "frequent" by any measure. > However the point of using established terminology is that everyone (or some worthwhile subset thereof) immediately knows what to expect. Michael > > (Yes, this is pedantic -- lists of answers to questions are > always useful regardless of frequency. But calling them > all FAQs is technically a misnomer.) > > -- > Greg > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > -- http://www.ironpythoninaction.com/
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