[compute] [Sigia-l] Ears over eyes?

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tOM Trottier:

> Words may be essential parts, but advertisers spend most of
> their money on pictures.

Which is why Trout [1] says:

"But the verbal should be the driver, while the pictures reinforce the
words. All too often the opposite is the case."

He's advocating a change, based on:

"Apparently, thinking itself involves the manipulation of sounds deep inside
the brain--even when the stimulus is purely visual, as with printed words. "
 
> Which would you use to better understand the relations between
> a bunch of entities. An E-R diagram or a verbal description?

Depends on who was at the receiving end of my explanation. I'd never use an
E-R diagram to educate non-programmers, for example. I'm completely against
IAs, designers or non-programmers using programmers' tools like UML for
anything, but that's another debate.

Ziya
Nullius in Verba 

[1] In the name of disclosure, in an earlier life, I worked with Trout's
daughter and Trout's partner Ries was a partner of my then boss.