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[Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>]

on Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 11:41:49PM -0400, Michael D. Thomas wrote:
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> > From: internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
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> > bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Steven Champeon
> > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 11:48 AM
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> > Most people I know can't even do HTML with any sort of sense, so I'd
> > rather use guitar as an example.
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> Wow. /Most/ of the people you know? More than 50%? Interesting....

Yeah, almost all of the people I know who use HTML, in fact, are
burdened with all these horrible habits they picked up over the past ten
years, and for the most part just spew out the worst sort of useless
crud. Very little of it is valid from the perspective of the W3C
recommendations which define the language and related technologies, and
most of what I've seen mixes structure/semantics with presentation in
ways that are senseless and only make it difficult to maintain, etc. But
that's beside the point. There are a few who do create HTML documents
well; most people do not, for one reason or another. (Most software
doesn't, either, but that's an entirely different issue, rooted in some
of the same causes, but enough already.)

> Anyway.... I found some technical inaccuracies in this post.

Technical inaccuracies in a string of metaphors? Wow. That's pretty
impressive, Michael. Can you also find abuses of poetic license in a
hex dump? ;)

> To play along with this example, each row in our table would represent a
> guitar.

No - the key point I was trying to make was that learning databases was
more like learning a guitar, where even the most mediocre beginner can
bang out a simple tune, but years of practice can make you reasonably
good, and many years of deep experience may give you skills and insights
not found in the average yeoman. That's all. Hope I didn't confuse any
other overly literal minded folks out there...

Steve

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