Re: FN-FORUM junior forum suggestion

date posted 29th September 2002 20:28

On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Mark Peter Mansell wrote:

> Its a pity, but too few people do this. I remember having an argunemnt with
> a 'web designer' (ex hairdresser) who acused me of writing something that
> 'was not standard html' because it broke his wonderful design ideas. When I
> quoted the section of the W3 standard that showed mine was standard and his
> stuff wasn't he went blank. He had no formal idea of what a standard was,
> and took the crap he was used to writing as being normal, therefore
> 'standard'.

I've seen this with a number of self-taught programmers too. By no means
would I claim to write the most optimal, most correct, or even most clear
code, but I do make an effort to make everything I write understandable by
others.

> BTW when I showed him HTML-Tidy, he rejected it because it was 'too rigid'
> and kept on bringing up errors....

Heh. I used to hate gcc (the GNU C Compiler) and the reams of errors it
generated when compiling with '-ansi -Wall' (ANSI standard C, all warnings)
as it very often made it hard to track down the original source of an error
(a missing semi-colon, usually ;-) but now I make sure any production code
compiles cleanly with both those options. If I was making the compiler do
all sorts of horrid tricks (e.g. kernel code) I might have an excuse for
letting one or two slip past, but as I don't...

Best Regards,
Alex.
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