On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Steve Holden <st...@holdenweb.com> wrote:
> Carsten Haese wrote: > I will point out again, without the least expectation that it will do > any good, that the reason this problem has occurred is that Victor > simply refuses to take the time to absorb the principles of what he is > attempting before attempting it. > > This is what I call "programming with a trowel" - take a chunk of code > from here and a chunk from there, splash a little bit of cement logic > around to glue everything together, and hope it works. The advanced part > of the strategy here is to then throw the resulting mess at an > accommodating newsgroup in the hope that the readers will turn it into > working code. > > It's as though he had taken the front half of a motor cycle and the back > half of a saloon car, welded them together without bothering to make any > electrical or fuel line connections, and then complaining that "the > vehicle doesn't work". Of course it doesn't, because there is no > underlying understanding of the principles involved. > > The interesting thing is that the web site is apparently being put > together to sell something. I have no idea what that something might be, > but I am as sure as I can be that I don't want to buy it, just from the > insight I have gained into the vendor's thought processes from the > various threads I have recently been involved in. > Comments from a left-brain thinker without any concept of how difficult it is for a right-brain thinker to think like you. Care to compare poetry? I'd bury you. > > regards > Regards what? beno
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