Paul M Foster wrote:
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>
> I agree, but you can absolutely count on truckloads of brain-dead luser
> applications from this. If I were hiring programmers, I'd sit 'em down
> in front of vi/jed/emacs and make them prove to me they could really
> program, not drag/drop.
>
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I think this whole view of having people prove that they can "program" by learning obscure and user-hostile applications (*ahem* vi) is BS.
Calling it masochism would be putting it in its best light. When I write my PHP scripts, I use a program called "PHP Coder Pro!" for
Windows, written in Delphi, and does that mean I write braindead code? No, it means that I actually value the time spent programming as
opposed to learning some braindead commandline interface. Seriously, what's so wrong with making things easier for programmers (not hackers
and hobbyists, I mean people who want to write code without having to worry about how they're supposed to cut'n'paste text)?
-- Kevin Fogleman
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