[SciPy-Dev] deprecations - things to remove before 0.8.0

[Robert Kern]

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 20:11, Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> The less thinking I have to do about things that don't matter, the
>> better I feel. Glyph Lefkowitz likens this to the rigorous Suzuki
>> Method of learning violin:
>>
>>  http://glyf.livejournal.com/58626.html
>>
>> There are exceptions, of course, but the ones that are worth breaking
>> a policy for are really obvious and won't be blindly ignored just
>> because we have a policy.
>
> Right.  Thanks - that's interesting and helpful.
>
> >From my side, I only ask, humbly, for something less abrasive as a
> first response.   I mean, instead of 'I see no reason...', something
> like, 'I don't think your argument justifies...'  The second is
> absolutely fair enough, and the first implies that I was talking
> nonsense.  Which you're welcome to imply of course, and if I'd had
> less coffee, I'm sure I would not have replied ;)

I apologize. I try very hard to write very precisely in plain language
and avoid rhetorical devices. I simply meant that I, personally, did
not see a justification for breaking the rule. I did not mean to imply
that one could not exist.

Where I run into problems is where the plain meaning of a phrase
usually used as a rhetorical device to emotionally bludgeon one's
conversant happens to match what I'm trying to say.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless
enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as
though it had an underlying truth."
  -- Umberto Eco