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Simon St.Laurent wrote: > I get the feeling that some of the writers on this list - though > _certainly_ not all - view the 'average developer' as some kind of > primitive creature that should be shunted aside in the name > of progress. Why would anyone shunt aside 'average developers'? Where else do the truly great developers come from, but the large pool of average developers? However, if all we ever talk about is what can be understood by the most number of people, then we do *not* progress. Do you really want to keep the useful discussion about how and whether to store XML files in a database or not to be constantly concerned with how many people can understand and contribute? Sure, you want to be as helpful as you can to others who are learning, but also you sometimes want to have high-level discussions with your peers (not to say we're all 'truly great' either - just 'above average'). > This colonialist view (I don't know what else to compare it > to - simple > elitism seems inadequate) has contributed to the development > of a lot of > tools that people talk about but very few people understand. I'm not sure which colonialism you're thinking of, but the one I read about involved dominating foreign lands, taking their cash and selling the occupants as slaves. Next you'll be talking about holocausts - rounding up 'average developers' and the like. Mark Birbeck Managing Director Intra Extra Digital Ltd. 39 Whitfield Street London W1P 5RE w: http://www.iedigital.net/ t: 0171 681 4135 e: Mark.Birbeck@i... xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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