At 11:49 PM 6/24/98 -0500, Peter J. Schoenster wrote:
>On 24 Jun 98, at 21:59, Rainmaker wrote:
>
>> Well said Julie! Like you, I think FP is a great tool when you
>> know what you are doing with it. And it's a poor craftsman who
>> blames the tools.
>>
>> BTW, there was nothing wrong with the earlier versions of FP,
>> even when it was a Vermeer product.
>
>At risk of just wasting bandwidth, I must say that I think the FP supporters
>miss the point.
>
>Analogies are necessary. In plain speak I would say that especially FP is a
>very real attempt to DEFINE what the internet is. Use it and you then
believe
>what is possible is what you can do with FP. When I first used Unix I was
>blown away. Yes, I said, yes.. here it is. I am expected to know, to
learn and
>do. There is no trash can working as a bookshelf. It is the real world
where if
>you touch a piece you move it.
>
>If I have a car and I hire a chauffeur who is driving? If I tell him to
turn left, am I
>driving? If I tell my chauffeur to speed up and he tells me his is going
as fast
>as possible, do I believe it?
>
>I will bet that most FP masters never thought of server-side-includes
until FP
>used them. It did not exist until FP said it did.
>
>I would bet that FP can be a great tool in the hands of one who has mastered
>it. But what has he mastered? Why not master the website? Master that and
>then choose your tool. Don't master the tool and miss the trade.
>
>Peter
Beautifully put, Peter. I have always strayed away from trashing any
program knowing that I haven't mastered it. No, I haven't mastered FP, but
in my suggesting that she toss it aside, I attempted to encourage her to
learn html from the ground up. FP let's you skip the first few feet but in
learning this way, one could quite possibly find that they're standing in
deep....
msfpmanglermedia.com for FP enthusiasts anyone? <g>
Luana
Luana M. Howard mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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