From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Word usage Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 13:08:43 -0600 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87vd3130p0.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <8739qlokab.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <0DD2CA23246747E0A66AA3DDBD4003E1@us.oracle.com> <2D3825EF7031471E922841F0A32E5A22@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1292008155 15494 80.91.229.12 (10 Dec 2010 19:09:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 19:09:15 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 10 20:09:11 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PR8L7-0001ID-TU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:09:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49023 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PR8L7-0006LJ-Bb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:09:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=46775 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PR8L1-0006Kz-Hl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:09:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PR8Kz-000774-Vb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:09:03 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:49456) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PR8Kz-00075z-Oa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:09:01 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PR8Kv-0001Bm-QB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:08:57 +0100 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:08:57 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:08:57 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:TeOUgJWVptkfRCSv3EUx7lXolcs= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:133579 Archived-At: On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 11:15:47 -0800 "Drew Adams" wrote: >> > And Emacs doc should definitely use the former, not the latter. >> > We should not suppose that Emacs users are familiar with >> > math notation beyond the most basic (e.g. arithmetic or algebra). >> > There is no reason to expect general users to be familiar with >> > interval notation. >> >> color.el is clearly not intended for general users, DA> Of course it is. Who is it excluding? ... DA> It is entirely possible to follow the code and comments of color.el DA> without necessarily being familiar with math interval notation - or DA> at least it should be. (I assert that having still never seen the DA> color.el code. ;-)) Seriously? I would have a lot of trouble writing these statements together in the same page, never mind paragraph. I suggest you look at the color.el source code. If you can't handle math notation, you have no hope of understanding it. DA> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_razor DA> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle Heh. Why don't you cite the Pareto principle to make the trifecta? It applies as much as the other ones... Ted