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Re: Why should a tech writer learn XML?

Subject: Re: Why should a tech writer learn XML?
From: Dick Margulis <margulis -at- fiam -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 14:13:14 -0400


Susan W. Gallagher wrote:

He laughed and said, "I've done a lot of programming by just
tweaking an example until it works, without ever having to
learn the concepts!"


I'm with him. Admittedly, the last time I earned my living as a programmer was a summer job in 1965; but my "formal" training in programming languages started with numeric machine language and an early assembly language called SPS on the IBM 1620, and ended with a couple flavors of Fortran and a waste-of-time BASIC course. Stuff I actually read books about (parts of them, anyway) include RPG II, Pascal, and COBOL. Everything else I've touched--C, C++, LISP, Javascript, VBscript, HTML, XML (yeah, I know they aren't all programming languages) has followed the Berlitz immersion method. I used to have posted on my wall a large "Chomsky was right!" sign, which was my way of explaining my stare-at-an-example-until-it-makes-sense technique.


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