Re: The worth of comments

From	Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: The worth of comments
Date	2011-05-28 20:30 +1200
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Grant Edwards wrote:

> After hearing/reading somebody for years, I don't seem to have a
> detailed image of them in my head, but when I finally do see a picture
> of them, my initial reaction is almost always "no, that's not at all
> what I thought he/she looked like".

It works the other way, too. I've known what Terry Pratchett looks
like for many years from the pictures on his books. When I heard
him on the radio for the first time recently, I thought, "Wait
a minute, that's not what his voice is supposed to sound like!"

-- 
Greg

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Re: The worth of comments Miki Tebeka <miki.tebeka@gmail.com> - 2011-05-27 08:57 -0700
  Re: The worth of comments Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-27 17:49 +0000
    Re: The worth of comments Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2011-05-28 20:30 +1200

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