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Re:LHC Physics Center bans Powerpoint, switches to whiteboar... by baak on Friday March 07, 2014 @07:00PM (#7363555)
That's a bit too broad. Someone holds a screwdriver incorrectly when screwing in a screw. The screw is slightly crooked because of the improper technique. Is the screwdriver fundamentally flawed because it allows the wielder to mess up? It's difficult for me to conceive something as portable, usable, cheap, and effective as the screwdriver, that does the same thing, and does not allow me to mess up. You have to make a sacrifice in some important category to get that. Programming languages can be pretty similar. Some are designed to make it harder to shoot yourself in the foot, but are far less popular (ADA is the example I'd use).
Re:LHC Physics Center bans Powerpoint, switches to whiteboar... by wahnfrieden on Friday March 07, 2014 @09:27PM (#7363988)
For a convincing (to me) argument against Powerpoint as the problem itself in poor presentations, see Edward Tufte's booklet/essay: http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_pp
Re:LHC Physics Center bans Powerpoint, switches to whiteboar... by pseut on Friday March 07, 2014 @09:24PM (#7363981)
But if you'd seen hundreds of people use screwdrivers, and had only heard one anecdote about a correctly aligned screw in an online forum...