Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!news.musoftware.de!wum.musoftware.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Gregory Ewing Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: The worth of comments Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 20:30:15 +1200 Lines: 14 Message-ID: <94bq4pFoadU1@mid.individual.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net WpPs1Jt+s119XOYrNgEdEg142WzYH/IpsejXHPGQAtWt0w0sHr Cancel-Lock: sha1:HHt+GNrI2YfDgScXdHiH1dR2w1Q= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (Macintosh/20050711) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:6460 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