On 06/11/2014 02:37, Dave Angel wrote:
Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> Wrote in message:
On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 2:56 AM, Larry Martell <larry.mart...@gmail.com> wrote:
And I don't think
Larry was actually offended; it's just that some questions don't
really have easy answers - imagine someone asking a great
mathematician "But how do you KNOW that 2 + 2 is 4? Where's it written
down?"... all he can say is "It is".
Yeah, I'm on a lot of lists and lately I've seen a lot of 'I'm not a
programmer, but I want to write code and I need someone to tell me
how." Gets to you after a while.
Too true. Those same people are unlikely to go to a gathering of civil
engineers and say "I'm no expert, but I want to build a bridge and I
need someone to tell me how", yet somehow it's expected to be possible
with software.
ChrisA
Or I'm no expert but I need someone to show me how; build me one
here in my front yard.
Against a requirements specification that changes on a daily basis, I
want it delivered yesterday and no you can't have any more resources to
help out, so don't ask :)
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what you can do for our language.
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