[OT] Text as digitization [was Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?]

[Chris Angelico]

On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 3:09 AM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 05:48:15 -0800, Rustom Mody wrote:
>
>> Text is a highly stylized unnatural medium
> [chomp]
>
>> That people who have not been cultured in a certain way can do
>> aggravating things like talking with pics instead of text — I wont
>> dispute That people who have gone from the nature to nurture process
>> conveniently forget this process is more aggravating
>
> I'm sorry, I don't understand this paragraph.

I think that paragraph is his demonstration that text can, if properly
crafted, be as useless as an image.

*ducking for cover*

ChrisA