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::: I don't know, this view doesn't resonate with me. It's not inappropriate for an encyclopedia to call a task daunting if it ''is'' in fact daunting. There are many examples in engineering. The biggest ones, of course, are things like the Mercury and Apollo NASA programs, or the Hoover Dam, or the Manhattan Project; but even the countless smaller and less famous ones were daunting for the people working on them. For example, the program to develop the 747 was a hair-raising gamble for Boeing, and there were a lot of sleepless nights for the engineers and machinists involved. The effort to write the [[OED]] was daunting. There are others who share the [[register (sociolinguistics)|register]] aversion, but given that it's artifactual (coming from enculturation rather than inherent in reality), I think it's best to move beyond it and just be completely honest in Wikipedia articles, and call a spade a spade. This register aversion always makes me think of the scene in the Wizard of Oz film where the wizard yells to the visitors to pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. He's insecurely trying to hide reality from them because it won't be as impressive as his puffed-up pretense. But the attempt is futile, because it assumes that the visitors are dumb enough to fall for it. Whereas they're actually smart enough to trust their own eyes. I think here in the internet era, where overt cynicism and iconoclasm have now been a part of our culture for a long while, and many readers have plenty of intelligence (if not knowledge of the specific topic they came to read about), most Wikipedia readers would rather just hear the truth via "le mot juste" rather than be condescended to by the wizard trying to put on airs. They actually find it ''more'' credible to hear the straight dope than to know that the tone of the phrasing is going to have to be discounted as a stylized convention (which is actually a kind of institutionalized dishonesty in a way—a lack of credibility in its own right). I guess what I'm trying to say (maybe not succeeding too well) is that this register aversion feels to me like Bowdler's attitude toward Shakespeare. Although he didn't know it, the attitude was never as necessary as he thought, because, contrary to his belief, the audience "can handle the truth". And when people read [[EULA]]s or website terms-&-conditions, they actually find it refreshing to find "normal people's register" as opposed to fossilized or evasive legalese (which they know darn well is ''not'' to be trusted). — [[User:Three-quarter-ten|¾-10]] 02:50, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
::::The [[Fairey Aviation Company|Fairey]]/[[Ferranti]] companies had a computer-controlled milling machine in operation making production parts in 1961 according to here: [http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1961/1961%20-%201331.html] - according to here: [http://www.wfel.com/about-wfel/history/] they in '1957 create the world’s first computer controlled 3D CNC milling machine in partnership with Ferranti.' <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">— Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/80.4.57.101|80.4.57.101]] ([[User talk:80.4.57.101|talk]]) 17:36, 20 November 2011 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:Unsigned IP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
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