In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Cameron Laird wrote: > >> No. No, to an almost libelous extent. > >No matter what you write about, there's always a certain subcategory of >potential readers who insist that collection, editing, filtering, >structuring, clarification, and the author's real-life experience of the >topic he's writing about has no value at all. My guess is that they >don't value their own time very highly. > ></F> >
Insightful. Well, I find it insightful; perhaps it's a personal blindness on my part. I expect programmers to understand, for example, that two lines of code can be a good day's production, in some circumstances, while it's "civilians" and managers who scorn their value on quantitative grounds. It's hard for me to conceive of an expert programmer who doesn't esteem what a high-quality book provides. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
