Do other Python GUI toolkits require this?

Antoon Pardon apardon at forel.vub.ac.be
Mon Apr 23 03:52:54 EDT 2007


On 2007-04-20, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> On 20 Apr 2007 12:25:40 GMT, Antoon Pardon <apardon at forel.vub.ac.be>
> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
>
>> 
>> But if a wrong idea is circulating and nobody ever tries to correct it,
>> people will continue with the wrong idea. All I did was make a simple
>> remark, that as I suggested anyone could ignore, but that would allow
>> those willing to learn, to further investigate.
>>
> 	But is it a "wrong idea" if 999 people interpret the phrase one way,
> and just 1 insists upon an interpretation that, while correct in a small
> technical area, results in misunderstanding when speaking with the other
> 999?
>
> 	The lay person sees "productivity" as movement on the x-axis (I'm
> "here" [start of job], I need to get "there" [end of job]).

I dare you. Give some people some data: Like the productivity of each
month in a year and ask them to put those numbers on a graph. I bet most
will put the months on the x-axis and the productivity on the y-axis.

-- 
Antoon Pardon



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