Dumb it down? [Was Scope of globals etc]
Dumb it down? [Was Scope of globals etc]
- Subject: Dumb it down? [Was Scope of globals etc]
- From: Malcolm Fitzgerald <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 09:39:25 +1000
On 23/5/01 6:06 PM +1000, Sander Tekelenburg, email@hidden, wrote:
Each of us needs to learn how to filter; how to find that which is important
to us and to not waste time on that which is not. I skip all the XPress and
Filemaker threads as they are not interesting to me. Others can skip
discussions about scope, script objects, and all that jazz.
True. But filtering on the basis of apps used is easy; recognising what's an
advanced topic and what's not can be a lot harder for a newcomer with no
programming background.
Personally, I enjoy some of the discussions about more advanced topics, even
though I make no real use of any of it. But some of the recent advocacy has
been a bit prescriptive for my taste.
I'm all for the technical discussion. The detail may be beyond me at
times but the clear explanations backed up by strong examples are
like gold in my eyes. I'm one of the "learnt HTML and then... crowd"
and I'm learning by example!
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Malcolm Fitzgerald
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The Australian Society of Authors
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