There's a very convincing talk I saw by Daniel Stone (X developer, Wayland developer), you can watch it on youtube. Basically X is more bad than good, and because of this no one can/wants to even implement it properly because to implement the bad parts is just insane. So by the time you fix all of X's flaws, pull out the font rendering, drivers, etc., it's not really X anymore.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIctzAQOe44

I understand people want their forwarding, but as long as I can get a remote window up on my screen, that's fine for me, and they seem to have this covered with RDP. It'd be great to get SSH integration like X currently has, but not essential.

Isn't it telling that the people developing X think it's the wrong solution for the current state of computing? Heck, even the network transparency (what I most often hear people raving about X) is just a slow way to send around bitmaps, because the rendering is rarely done using the X rendering primitives.

I think the point trying to be made here is how degrees aren't really the proper units for a measure of angle. While they may be easier to understand for some, they don't fit the math as well as radians do. Think about how an angle can represent a circle, then you can see how 360 degrees really don't make much sense, compared to 2 pi radians.

Also, you have to realize that the editing won't likely won't be done by hand, so all that need be done is have the modeling program convert from degrees (if that's your preference).

It's nice for the format to be human-readable (which it still is), but being mathematically conveniant is likely a good trade off for the slight inconvenience of radian usage.

Lastly, there's really no one saying which is easier to use. I personally prefer using radians to degrees, they make the work I have to do with them easier (which admittedly isn't a lot ;)). Since the choice of which unit to use is rather ambiguous, I think the mathematical ease of radians breaks the tie in the end.