On Thu, 08 May 2008 03:25:54 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Maas, http://tinyurl.com/uh3t) wrote:
>> From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> the importance of naming of functions. > >> ... [take] a keyword and ask a wide >> audience, who doesn't know about the language or even unfamiliar of >> computer programing, to guess what it means. This is a dumb idea ... >Better would be to reverse the question: Ask >random people on the street what they would like to call these >concepts: ... and this one is even dumber. Terms don't exist in a vacuum - they exist to facilitate communication within a particular knowledge or skill domain. For example, English is only meaningful to those who speak English. The opinions of random people who have no relevant domain knowledge are worthless. Such a survey could only be meaningful if the survey population already possessed some knowledge of programming, but were not already aware of the particular terminology being surveyed. George -- for email reply remove "/" from address -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
