Re: free source for bbs

From: Michele Dondi (bik.mido_at_tiscalinet.it)
Date: 04/04/04 

Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 17:35:11 +0200

On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 07:20:30 GMT, Uri Guttman <uri@stemsystems.com>
wrote:

>i won't if you won't try to be a programmer. there are already too many
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>coders in the field who don't know anything. you are just another
>statistic. you will be so much smarter if you realize how little about
>coding you know. besides all the security problems and lack of cgi
>understanding, you lack the basics of simple coding like scoping, api
>design and more. but you insist on claiming you know stuff when you
>don't. only unelected presidents can make such false claims and get away
>with it.

I would tend to disagree, for one! Granted, your observations are
fundamentally correct, but who are you to tell him not to be a
programmer?!? In fact it's true that in the beginning he seemed to be
refusing to understand the good pieces of advice he was being given,
especially the ones about "take this thing off!", but eventually IMHO
he has shown to be much more reasonable and not to be the kind of
arrogant crackpot he looked like at first!

Now, at this point one may start an in-depth discussion more of a
philological nature about what is to be understood for "programmer",
e.g.: "professional programmer"? "Hobbyist programmer"? Ad libitum...
but *in any case* if he turns out to be willing to improve his
programming/perl skills, then why should he be advised to avoid doing
so a priori?!?

Michele 

-- 
you'll see that it shouldn't be so. AND, the writting as usuall is
fantastic incompetent. To illustrate, i quote:
- Xah Lee trolling on clpmisc,
  "perl bug File::Basename and Perl's nature"

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