2nd August 2004, 3:54 PM
My own opinion is that should be revealed via the human interactions, not by people directly explaining it. It should be something you have to figure out rather than it just being handed to you. It's just annoying when they get lazy and just say "okay, here's the diagram" about stuff.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)