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On 05/08/2015 23:12, J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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> On Wednesday, August 05, 2015 06:20:17 PM Mick wrote: |
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>> On Wednesday 05 Aug 2015 11:47:58 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>>> Much of what makes programming work has been dumbed down in recent years |
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>>> so that employable persons without imagination[1] can have jobs and do |
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>>> something useful. I'm reminded of an old saw about PHP: |
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>>> The nice thing about php is it let's everyone and their dog write code. |
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>>> The bad thing about php is that they do. |
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>> Your imagination[1] footnote didn't make it to the list. I thought for a |
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>> minute that you used some php parser ... :p |
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> It's not that old for an "old saying". |
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> I can't find a reference to that saying older then august 2014 using Google. |
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> And all those are links to the same email written by our own Alan McKinnon.... |
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Ah! That's because it was I who made it up years ago and have told it to |
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lots of people. |
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About a year ago is obviously the first time I wrote it down :-) |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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