[Sigia-l] Programming IAs was: Little things an IA MUST know/do

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"Eric Reiss" wrote:

> As to Point 1. Stuff and nonsense. Having been doing IA since long
> before there even was HTML, I'm truly offended by this thought.
> Although I have programmed in several languages in my time (starting
> with FORTRAN back in 1968), I never bothered to learn HTML and java
> is what's in my cup. I guess I'd better slash my wrists.

If you were in the U.S. working in an enterprise setting and doing web apps,
you wouldn't need to slash your wrists, you'd already be six feet under. :-)

You say that "Hands-on understanding of the ways of the Web is critical "
and yet that you "never bothered to learn HTML". Why not? Your work never
touches on any design/structuring/interactive aspects of the web? HTML is
not a disease, it's the markup language, the currency in the realm of the
web. Why would you avoid it, if your work involves it? I can't imagine
knowing it would make you less of an IA?

Ziya
Nullius in Verba