Posted by Chung Leong on 08/09/06 15:21

Richard Levasseur wrote:
>
> To be honest, I've yet to find a good forms class that lets me do
> things the way i want without to much hassle.

People have tried and tried. The approach is fundamentally flawed. A
solution that's highly structural in nature simply will not work for a
problem that isn't.

Too often people equates "structured" with "superior" in programming. I
don't know if it's a prejudice they instill into students in CS. My own
education was in human languages. To me it's obvious that a language is
far a far more powerful and flexible tool than a class library. HTML is
very good at what it does, that is, describing the appearance of a web
page. PHP is also very good at what it does, gluing various
functionalities together. I don't understand why people keep insisting
on having a structural framework when the structure has questionable
benefits and imposes constraints.

/rant off

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