'add' Page NOT Screen vs Page vs Card!!

[Judy Perry]

What name calling?  I didn't say he was elitist, merely that people who
frown on someone else's tool because it uses words like "card" etc. are
elitist.

My arguments are simply:

(1) you can't add every possible keyword analog in every other language to
Rev's language and expect it to be usable/learnable.

(2) the word "card", far from being some silly idol, continues to be a
useful and well-understood metaphor for a tool that can produce
information presented in both a linear and a non-linear function, unlike a
book, which is largely used in a linear fashion except in special distinct
circumstances.

Judy

 On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Dar Scott wrote:

> The problem is that even your simple suggestion is taken as being
> against non-programmers.  I find the notion that anybody who is not
> bowing down to the word 'card' is against non-programmers to be
> offensive.
>
> For my part, and in particular, I have never seen John take a
> programmer elitist position and I don't intend to take such a position
> either.  John didn't ask for me to speak up, and probably would have
> preferred I did not, but the name-calling upset me and I found no basis
> for it.  This was no simple discussion of ideas in which an opinion of
> some idea was that it was elitist.  It was a completely unfounded
> attack on another.  I addressed that as kindly as I could and with
> humor, but I don't think that got to the card priesthood.
>
> The card is a useful metaphor.  Once it become an idol or a stick to
> hurt others, it gets in my way.
>