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Posted by Franklin on 08/14/07 09:19
On Tue 14 Aug 2007 05:06:42, dorayme <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au>
wrote in alt.comp.freeware:
> In article <Xns998C2FF1979CCQ78XD91A@127.0.0.1>,
> Franklin <frank.says@no.spam.com> wrote:
>
>> > I am not disputing that poor practices and generators in
>> > particular do not help the education of people. In fact, the
>> > Andy D line on this has much to recommend it. But the very thing
>> > you are saying is flat wrong. You can look as hard as you like
>> > at a simple thing and think it is easy to make. And be wrong.
>> >
>>
>> You are not wrong. As something similar, it has been observed
>> that an expert is someone who makes a difficult task look easy.
>>
>> But your words do not always apply. I would say they do not apply
>> most of the time. Indeed I might go further and suggest they only
>> apply some of the time and, in thi socntext, only in a relatively
>> small minority of cases. In other words, if HTML looks easy then
>> it probably is easy.
>
> Keep going! Soon, I will be wrong all of the time and in every
> single respect. <g>
>
> It is no good just saying these things. You agree with the
> general argument that simple made-things are not ipso facto
> simple to make. As for the rest, what are we to do to test your
> claim?
>
> My claim is backed up by this: if you come across a simple and
> elegant little bit of html that expresses a good looking and
> useful page, you can almost bet your house that it is done by
> someone who has quite a clue and got there by some good hard work
> over time.
>
> In any case, it is a highly artifical dispute unless we bring css
> into the picture. And once again, what I am saying is multiplied
> by an order or two of magnitude in truth then.
>
> You can get away with thinking what you and others are thinking
> because you do a lot of background abstracting from realities.
>
"You can get away with thinking what you and others are thinking
because you do a lot of background abstracting from realities."
Hey! I resemble that remark. I mean in real life. And all the time.
Heh heh! What do "you" mean there's a bit too much abstract
thinking going on in my head and my posts show it? Heh heh!
Well, maybe this thread we will be debating how some people do not
find it easy in general to engage in what might be called technical
or numerical thinking. It's such a wide-ranging topic that I don't
much want to life the lid on it because that discussion might never
end!
I will permit myself one side observation. Making this sort of
technical stuff easy to understand is a specific skill in
communication and not all authors/teachers have the skill. When one
finds instructors who do have this skill then for the learner
suddenly this stuff becomes incredibly much easier.
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