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Re: Prospector: Python Static Analysis for Humans

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This "for humans" trend really needs to stop :)

Why? So long as it doesn't get watered down and actually meaningfully indicates "I've made a serious effort to think about the user interaction and engineering psychology issues involved in my design.", I think its a trend that advances the industry.

It is pretentious in the same way 'with love' is tacked onto startup tag lines.

It implies that all the other libraries are for Asperger's wielding non-persons.

Re: Prospector: Python Static Analysis for Humans

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why? So long as it doesn't get watered down and actually meaningfully indicates "I've made a serious effort to think about the user interaction and engineering psychology issues involved in my design.", I think its a trend that advances the industry.

It is pretentious in the same way 'with love' is tacked onto startup tag lines. It implies that all the other libraries are for Asperger's wielding non-persons.

No, it implies that other libraries are written primarily for computers to execute and secondarily for humans to use.

It is only pretentious if it is...actually pretending.

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