On Jul 29, 2008, at 2:04 PM, Frank Barknecht wrote:
Hallo, Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
On Jul 29, 2008, at 1:31 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote:
I think, it would be important to first collect every possible style element in the wild and document what people are using in reality. That would be interesting. I'm not too much in favour of a style "guide" however. Let people be creative.
Nobody is talking about requirements. If you don't like style guides, don't use them. But it is really not useful to squelch other people's efforts, especially when you don't even have an intention of using this stuff.
I really cannot see where you got the impression that I'm squelching Luke's suggestion, when I briefly expressed a certain personal scepticism regarding style guides in two sentences of currently three much longer mails in this thread, which I considered to be
constructive, at least as brainstorming fodder or to give some motivations on how
and why my personal style evolved the way it did.
From this sentence:
"I'm not too much in favour of a style "guide" however. Let people be
creative."
Maybe I overreacted. I think there is a lot of negative tone on this
list, I am sure I have contributed to that as well. I think we
should encourage people to try things more than telling them its
wrong before they have started.
Or maybe I'm just a fucking hippie... "peace 'n' love dude!"
.hc
Ciao
Frank Barknecht
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