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Posted by dorayme on 10/12/72 11:55
In article <MPG.1f4a53d91d26c5009896dd@news.aardvark.net.au>,
Joe <joedinmore@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> > 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.
> And they do. They use a packet cakemix called frontpage. Cakes which
> taste ok to 80% of the population. They can "seem r
Yes, thanks Joe... I know... one can go on forever with these
analogies but you need to be very careful to target what someone
might not be understanding at all and make a very specific
analogy to help them...
> > 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.
>
> >
> Exactly! Cakes are not all the same. Sponge-cake, mud-cake, .....
> Anyone can bake a cake. Not everyone can bake a GOOD cake, and I
> certainly would not expect them to be able to do so without a good grasp
> of the fundamentals.
In other words the analogy is not very useful really... not
really really... getting it?
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dorayme
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