> As for the automatic coders Paul wants, they are all over the place and
are
> often the source of many errors which brings up this point: for quite
some
> time, we will need humans to code the code that the automatic coders use
to
> code web pages. In other words, someone needs to know how to write the
> programs for the auto coders and check on how good a job they are doing.
> Some people need to be able to write good code as a paradigm for the
auto
> programs to emulate. (Personaly, I hate them and write all my own - with
> generous help from cut and paste from previous work. The only way I know
to
> get that icab face smiling much of the time! Take a look at some auto
> generated code - it's often a nightmare of inelegance and if not right,
h> ard to correct ...)
>
> David
If you want to see a particularly pointed example of this, take a look at
the section towards the end of Tom Negrino's book "JavaScript for the
World Wide Web", if you have access to it, titled "Code Shootout: People
Make Better Programmers", in which a hand-tooled page, with HTML & JavaScript
code (26 lines), doing mostly simple things like a rollover, is contrasted
with output that does the same thing, from Dreamweaver (44 lines) & GoLive
(106 lines!).
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