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Posted by dorayme on 11/07/38 11:55
In article
<leo-BFF8AD.02391812082006@sn-indi.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net>,
Leonard Blaisdell <leo@greatbasin.com> wrote:
> In article <i85rd2dnsab6q0fudndbktiafudur3gfmc@4ax.com>,
> David Segall <david@address.invalid> wrote:
>
> > Joe <joedinmore@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > >Here's my theory.
> > >http://grakatsa.phpnet.us/webcake.php
> > >Critiques of the theory, the page, whatever welcomed.
> > >I can take it.
> > I look forward to your lesson on brain surgery.
> > 1. Book the operating theater (oven, cakepan)...
>
> Geeze, don't HTML and CSS mean learning the methods and following a
> procedure? They are recipes. They aren't brain surgery or rocket
> science.
I think you miss the subtlety of what David Segall is meaning or
the mistake in the idea he is lampooning. It is not that there
are not recipes, or various analogies but rather that if it was
really like baking a cake, you would expect people to find it
easier to make websites that work well and seem reasonably
pleasant. The fact is that earthlings do nothing but follow
algorithms, it is the complexity, detail and subtlety of the
algorithms that make the difference between good and bad. Yes,
just as in cake baking. The point is that it is hard to teach as
a recipe the real algorithm that makes a nice cake. This means
that saying that making websites is like baking a cake is almost
more than useless. Getting the idea?
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dorayme
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