[BangPypers] designing programs

[Saju Pillai]

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai <
abpillai at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon at au-kbc.org
> >wrote:
>
> > On Friday 25 June 2010 12:37:25 Saju Pillai wrote:
> > > I am allergic to any design tool more complex than pen & paper
> > >
> >
> > well, we seemed have almost reached a consensus - now all we need to
> decide
> > is
> > the pros and cons of pen versus pencil.
> >
>
>  I support pencil because,
>
>  1. It can be sharpened


The sharpened pencil lead is more dangerous than the smaller rounded
ballpoint tip.


>  2. It doesn't cause those splotches in your hand and dress like a pen
>

Sharpeners leave behind large amounts of thin fine wood shavings.

 3. There is only one colour to choose - so no confusion between blue
>  and black etc.
>

Clearly you haven't drawn Yogi bear cartoons using color pencils


>  4. It is the simplest contraption in the world which consists of just
>    two parts and no moving ones.
>

Cannot be used without a complex and potentially dangerous sharpener


>  5. It has space-age glamour since the Russian cosmonauts used it
>  to write during their space flights.
>

The tips can break in 0-g and get into sensitive equipment -- heard this
excellent explanation in the 3-Idiots movie.

-srp


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> > --
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> > Kenneth Gonsalves
> > Senior Associate
> > NRC-FOSS at AU-KBC
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