On Jun 21, 10:52 am, Bjorn Borud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Twisted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] > | > | Being beginner-friendly doesn't have to be at the expense of power or > | expert-user usability. > > depends on your definition of "expert". :-)
Well, admittedly, if your definition of "expert" is "elitist pig who considers beginner-hostileness itself to be a required feature in order for him to regard the software as usable", then you may be right. That sort of negative-sum thinking is alien to me. Software being easy for beginners to get started using does not in and of itself detract from its value to expert users. Only if they "value" such perverse things as "being one of the exclusive club that can actually manage to use this thing" does any of this make sense. That's a form of artificial scarcity, and as I think I've mentioned before, artificial scarcity is one of the more major roots of evil. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
