Re: [xml-dev] Simplicity Rocks

[Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie>]

On 09/12/10 10:15, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
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> On 9 déc. 10, at 18:49, Pete Cordell wrote:
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>> Someone mentioned script-kiddies on the list.  Actually I think the world is turning into code-kiddies.  The new model seems to be, stumble into problem, do Google search, download sample code, move onto next problem.  People don't take 6 months to learn a technology before using it.
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> The world has always worked like this. Only specialists don't see that.
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> The world needs ad-hoc solutions for arbitrary problems that pop up occasionally 99% of the time.

That's fine so long as those of us who have to deal with the 1% are not
deprived of the tools because of some mistaken concept of majority rule.

///Peter