Re: Anachronistic Acronyms in Parrot?

[Simon Cozens]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 09:34:10AM -0400, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > Do you really want to encourage people to pick up something as complex as
> > Parrot and start contributing without looking at the gestalt of how it works?
> > We get enough uninformed patches as it is. :)
> 
> Oh, great.  Now obscurity is a virtue.

No. Thinking before programming is a virtue. Learning about the system
you're about to hack on is a virtue. Mnemonic value is a virtue.

Having to type lots of shit which is supposedly easier to understand
just to help dummies who don't know what they're doing muck stuff up
is quite definitely not a virtue.

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And these bones--they don't look so good to me
   Jokers talk and they all disagree
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