Posted by Chris F.A. Johnson on 10/03/06 20:13

On 2006-10-03, Travis Newbury wrote:
> Peter wrote:
>> > Interesting how you want to blame an inanimate object for a humans
>> > shortcomings.
>> Ok, put it this way: The makers of Frontpage designed their program to
>> f*** up HTML.
>
> Yea, I am sure that is the exact words they used in the planning
> meeting... FrontPage is a tool, no better or worse than any other
> tool when used by some one that is competent.

There is a corollary to the old saying that "a poor workman blames
his tools", and that is, "a good workman uses good tools".

FrontPage is demonstrably not a good tool.

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Chris F.A. Johnson <http://cfaj.freeshell.org>
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