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From: Matt Austern <austern@isolde.mti.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: What is wrong with OO ?
Date: 1996/12/18
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Date: 1996-12-18T00:00:00+00:00
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Tansel Ersavas <tansel@rase.com> writes:

> > Is it really?  Can a painting communicate subtle ideas as clearly as
> > literature?
> 
> A picture is worth a thousand words.

Literally so?  In that case, that suggests an interesting challenge.
The article I'm replying to, <32B89D8D.7999@rase.com>, consists of 552
words.  That figure includes some initial praise of visual
programming, Matt Kennel's skeptical question about the ability of a
painting to communicate subtle ideas, and a response defending visual
programming in some detail.  (And actually, 552 is probably an
overestimate: I used wc to get that number, and it includes the header
lines and the .sig file.)

So is a picture worth five hundred words?  Can someone come up with a
picture that says the same things that this 552 word article does?