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Posted by Toby A Inkster on 05/10/07 11:31
Ben C wrote:
> Some of these analogies imply that once the novice has found his HTML
> legs he can safely go back to using Frontpage. But no-one does that,
> they just graduate from notepad to a better text editor. The only people
> who use Frontpage are novices who don't know better.
Which is why I like Sherm Pendley's analogy, comparing a text editor to a
pencil and paper, and Frontpage to a calculator, for the purpose of maths.
A calculator will help you do moderately complicated calculations fairly
quickly, but they have limited precision (e.g. limited number of decimal
points it can display), and will often still require plenty of thought
from the user in knowing which calculations need to be made.
But when it comes to the really complicated calculations, a calculator is
of little use. Ask Andrew Wiles why he took so long to discover the proof
to Fermat's Last Theorem, and he is unlikely to tell you that it's because
he hadn't found the right key on his calculator.
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