Subject: Re: becoming a better programmer From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> Date: 17 Sep 2002 19:02:35 +0000 Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3241278155345813@naggum.no> * Henrik Motakef | For the record, XHTML 2 will finally have nested sections, and generally | seems to make it from a lousy to a tolerable *ML application. Maybe there's | hope, but I still think getting rid of HTML altogether is more promising | than fixing it. I quite agree, but the cost of the transition will be considerable. The only good things about the Web are that web pages are rewritten and applications scrapped at an alarming rate even in our current recession and that there is apparently no resistance to any kind of design in the community as long as they can get their desired visual results. Such a pragmatic focus may be a good foundation for making the necessary changes relatively quickly. -- Erik Naggum, Oslo, Norway Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder. Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder.