On Tuesday, April 19, 2016 at 9:44:39 PM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tue, 19 Apr 2016 01:04 pm, Rustom Mody wrote: > > > And more generally that programmers sticking to text when rest of world > > has moved on is rather backward: > > I'm pretty sure that the rest of the world has not moved on from text.
Run your popular search engine on "popular linux apps" or some such and you will get for example: inkscape gimp blender libreoffice writer/calc/prese wireshark skype firefox audacity musescore totem vlc dia Do these look like text-based apps to you? > Text > still makes up by far the bulk of human communication. It's compact (one > second of a Youtube video requires about the same bandwidth as about 7000 > words), it can be easily searched, edited, translated, the presentation can > be changed to suit the reader, and more. Yes so you just showed that in the realm of multimedia we are somewhere nearabouts... tickertape? Hollerith cards? Doesn't change the basic structure of the human being viz that 5 senses working in harmony make us more productive than one overworking rest languishing > When precision of meaning is > important, text is still the winner except in a few specialist areas, such > as technical drawings, and even they still make extensive use of text. Yes in the short to medium run our text capability remains better than others. Those who want to keep it so forever are keeping the rest of us back.... fortunately futilely! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
