Suppose that you have a Python utility program that does a number ofrelated things; it's invoked as ' program command .... ', and decideswhat to do based on what the command is. The obvious way to implementthis in Python is to have a function for each command and a top-leveldispatcher that looks up the function to call for each command andpasses it the arguments to process. Clearly you don't want to hard-codethis in the dispatcher function in a big

To go with my previous thoughts about the purposes of comments , here is another reason that people might want to nothave them on their blog: they eat your limited time.

In a sense, comments on your blog carry with them an implicit duty toreply; while you can skip this, it may look odd andcause bad reactions. However, comments that you write will probably getless of an audience than a new entry. So if you only have a limitedamount of time to write things for your blog

Expanding on a remark in the previous entry : Ithink there are several reasons why your comments are likely to get lessof an audience than new entries. First, in most blog setups new commentsare less obvious to readers than new entries, as your readers have to goback by hand to look for them. This is especially so if people are onlyinterested in a few comments.

It's possible to work around this with a different blog layout, but itdoes mean a moderately radical change from how people

In theory, you can force a lot of things down the throats of users,whether or not they like it; you provide what you provide, and theusers have to live with it. (I will assume that the 'you' here includesmanagement.)

In practice, this is not so, and you ultimately do need the supportof your users to survive and prosper. No system can last unless theusers actually like it and it does what they want. If users dislike yoursystem or are just