What amazes me is that people who ask questions like that
have jobs in software engineering / web application
development at all.
I think that in some cases they don't. I think we get a fair number of
questions from students who are not getting the help they need from
those who are paid to teach them.
I generally work on the basis that a short answer to a question is
better than no answer at all, but you're probably right that these
people need a 3-year computer science education, not a 3-line answer
from this list. Sigh.
Michael Kay
Software AG
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