On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Denis Bucher wrote:
> Simon Keary a �crit :
> >
> > I can't really see the problem myself - Why is that programmers seem more
> > stuck in the past than anyone else?
>
> The past is POLUTION and WASTE, the future is smart and light !
On the face of it oFF-TOPIC, but understanding the computer world better
will make all of us write better servlets:-) Here we go then...
If one has had proper programming education one MUST have had at least a
few hrs. of mathematics. This should suffice to cover the gaps of science
schooling, particularly on the opposite side of the Atlantic if you are
standing on Europe, that hinder people from appreciating simplicity and
gist. These are significant elements if you write algorithms that might be
used by someone other than you and your friends. Of course simplicity and
gist are inherent human brain skills, math only helps to bring them up and
shape them better.
To illustrate simplicity and gist, you need to be a moron or a manager (or
both) to utilise 3-D bar charts to graph 2-D data! The first reply,
insinuated M$oft as a big culprit for this derailing, since in their
attempt to maximise profits, they have included everything in their
products (e.g. Word, Excel) retrofitting the vicious circle of 'see ma,
what I can do with my computer'.
This mentality is hard to reverse, let alone eradicate, and leads to
people using facilities (e.g. HTML in a list mail message) that have
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH THEIR PURPOSE, which remains the verbal
description of a problem.
I understand why your (grand)mother will refuse to write a message in
plain text, but you are addressing a servlets list, and you should know
more about purpose, bandwidth and -why not?- netiquette, to require effort
on the other end of a communication channel, instead of sticking to the
baseline.
Those being said, not only I am sure people will keep on writing purple
characters at the -2 size, I am pretty much afraid we will soon see videos
of their steps that lead to an exception as attachments!
Kostas
P.S. Direct flames to my personal account:-)
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