Comments on: hehehe

By: Luis

Luis — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:52:49 +0000

Rekha: you’ve never noticed because 90% of my writing that you read is on a mailing list that prizes the quick and the witty ;)

By: Rekha

Rekha — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:45:51 +0000

Luis - I’ve never noticed verbosity in your writing.

My clarity and “concision” (is that a word, John Fleck? If not, it should be) came from working in public radio. Writing in natural language, in a way that you will immediately be understood without requiring the listener to work too hard, is challenging, but soon you find you can in fact communicate the vast majority of what you need but in a more essential way. It helped my grad school writings a lot.

By: John Fleck

John Fleck — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:13:51 +0000

Luis -

My general experience is that clarity and concision in both writing and speaking is a common characteristic of lawyers - at least, of good ones, which I assume you will be. Oddly enough, my experience over the years with the GNOME crew has been that these are also characteristics of good hackers.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:32:14 +0000

An Open Letter to Luis:

Dear Luis,

Don’t go changin’

Sincerely,

Dave Mason

By: Murray Cumming

Murray Cumming — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:53:36 +0000

I’m hardly one to preach about verbosity these days. But you’re doing much better.