Re: Python from Wise Guy's Viewpoint

From: Erann Gat (spammers_must_die_at_jpl.nasa.gov)
Date: 10/24/03 

Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 10:07:42 -0700

In article <m14qxy39ht.fsf@tti5.uchicago.edu>, Matthias Blume
<find@my.address.elsewhere> wrote:

> spammers_must_die@jpl.nasa.gov (Erann Gat) writes:
>
> > [...] It turns out that there are universal aesthetic principles that are
> > hard-wired into the human brain. That's why the Parthenon or a
> > Frank Ghery building look better than a Bronx tenement. To
> > everyone.
>
> You still get n answers. Admittedly, they will tend to be correlated.
> If aesthetics are so universal, how come Windows XP looks so hideously
> ugly? (To name just one example.)

Do you realize that you just proved my point by stating unequivocally that
Windows XP looks hideous? You're right about that. (Maybe you're not as
hopeless as an artist as you think.) The reason is very simple: Microsoft
doesn't care about aesthetics. Never has. Probably never will.

That's one of the reasons I use a Mac.

E. 

---
"The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste...I don't mean
that in a small way--I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they
don't think of original ideas, and they don't bring much culture into
their productŠSo I guess I am saddened, not by Microsoft's success--I have
no problem with their success; they've earned their success for the most
part--I have a problem with the fact that they just make really third-rate
products." 
-- Steve Jobs.  Triumph of the Nerds PBS documentary interview (May 1996)

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