Teaching python to non-programmers

[Chris Angelico]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompmody at gmail.com> wrote:
> There are cultures -- far more pervasive than USENET in 2014 -- where
> top posting is the norm, eg
> - Gmail makes top posting the norm. Compare the figures of gmail and Usenet users
> - Corporate cultures more or less require top posting -- helped by MS Outlook
>   Else it looks like dishonesty/dissimulation/hiding
> - Personally I am on different groups. I tend to top post by default. And its
>   as strange and bizarre there as its required minimum etiquette here

I have seen plenty of cultures where people are unaware of the value
of interleaved/bottom posting, but so far, not one where anyone has
actually required it. Not one. "Norm" here just means "the thing
people are too lazy to not do". That's not a reason for anyone else
doing it.

ChrisA