Functionalism, aesthetics Was:(RE: I come to praise .join, not to bury it...)

[Steven Burr]

In article <997fp901i44 at news2.newsguy.com>, "Alex Martelli"
<aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote:

<snip (to state the obvious)>

>                            I might even suggest that, in
> some fields, a productive strategy might be to proceed to
> determine by traditional means all that the users _say_
> they want, then do exactly the opposite (but that would
> be pure provocation on my part, so I won't:-).

I'd like to know where you got a copy of our IT department's mission
statement. :)