Richard Gaskin wrote: "what is the specific number of days you would consider a minimum for applying the phrase "learn programming"?
Eight? 23? Hundreds? Thousands? 4067? Hundreds of thousands? And please define "programming"." OUCH ! Part 1: I suppose learning programming (as I understand the term) is rather like learning a human language; an ongoing, never ending process involving a constant process of refinement. Part 2: "Programming"; Well we could try comparing the 6 year-olds I have worked with just now for 6 weeks who can manage "I have a father", but when you say to them "Has your friend got a father" they look at you as if you are daft because they don't understand 'has'; with your good self, who, presumably, judging by the standard of your e-mails are highly proficient in English :) How about this definition: "When your abilities with a particular programming language / IDE is as good as Richard Gaskin's English you can call yourself a programmer." sincerely, Richmond Mathewson ____________________________________________________________ A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life Cycle. ____________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ Rise to the challenge for Sport Relief with Yahoo! For Good http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/forgood/ _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution