Posted by shimmyshack on 03/26/07 11:09

I think we might be getting somewhere

> Please don't understand - I don't think negatively of your abilities,
> but I do think you're a bit naive.
as you wish, it's fine both ways
>
> Calculators for building log tables are one thing. But that's not
> nearly the same as a generic program for displaying information from a
> SQL database.

that's not actually what I am doing at all, it's more like a program
for displaying the generic info from a database.

> And neither is anywhere close to English language statements to describe programs.

that's correct given the above proviso

> And sure, the tools are very easy to use. So is a paint brush. So does
> that mean everyone can be a master painter?

did I mention tools? I said what we do is easy. The fact is that
reinventing the wheel is easy because the wheel is there as
inspiration, and because it's an everyday druge for so many, it gains
the status of a social norm, there's no need to justify doing it, as
everyone agrees is ok to be doing it, that won't change until the
usual paradign shift shows everyone to be wrong. We're basically
sheep.

>
> And yes, I've seen sites which are being updated by clients. It's not
> hard at all to determine if a professional or a wanna-be has been doing
> the updating, even with just the HTML/javascript.

Ah, now here's where you've been hoisted by your own proverbial. The
clients don't update the /site/, they use tools we provide to update
the data, because that's what they care about, know more about and are
better at doing semantically than us modellers.

perhaps we need to agree to differ; although I will generally defer to
experience and age anyway, so yours is the wreath of laurel :)

prov 26,17
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