On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > (Oh, and I don't want to come across as elitist, but if you're using the > two-ton wrecking ball of Microsoft Word to crack the tiny peanut of > writing emails, you will have *zero* tech credibility in programming > communities. Harsh but true. Sorry Marco, but mastery of tools is > important to programmers, and a tool that generates as crufty HTML as > Word does will unfortunately reflect badly on the person using the tool.)
There are the mistakes (nearly) everyone makes when new. I think HTML email might be one of them. The difference between a good programmer and a mediocre one is that the good programmer has already made a lot of mistakes, and has learned from them. The difference between an excellent programmer and a good one is that the excellent one is familiar with a huge number of tools, and knows which one is best for which situation. A two-ton wrecking ball is not the best tool for cracking peanuts; Microsoft Word is not the best tool for... well, anything, probably. My boss at work laughs sometimes at the weird variety of tools I crack out in response to various problems - today it's awk, tomorrow sed, the next day some two-minute script in Python, Pike, bash, PHP, or REXX.... ever noticed how beautiful chaos can be? :) Chris Angelico -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
