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RE: Should XML Professionals Be Programmers?

  • From: "Len Bullard" <cbullard@hiwaay.net>
  • To: "'John Cowan'" <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>, "'Cox, Bruce'" <Bruce.Cox@U...>
  • Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 20:45:11 -0600

RE:  Should XML Professionals Be Programmers?
In a profession, you do the work applying the knowledge you obtain doing the
work.  If you learned application from a book even better.  That means
others will understand what you are doing if they read.  If they practice,
you can do it together.  If neither, you are in different professions.  

len

-----Original Message-----
From: John Cowan [mailto:cowan@ccil.org] On Behalf Of John Cowan
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2012 6:03 PM
To: Cox, Bruce
Cc: Michael Kay; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: Re:  Should XML Professionals Be Programmers?

Cox, Bruce scripsit:

> In graduate school (1980) we agreed that a professional is someone who
> will do the right thing based on extensive knowledge of the domain,
> whether or not the customer knows to ask for it.  Today, I'd say
> it this way: A professional is someone trusted to do the right thing
> based on extensive knowledge of the domain, whether or not the customer
> knows enough to ask for it.

I think it's also the case that in a profession you apply knowledge you
got from a book (basically).  In a job, being ditch-digging or being
President of the United States, you apply whatever you already have to
doing what needs to be done.

-- 
John Cowan  cowan@ccil.org  http://ccil.org/~cowan
If he has seen farther than others,
        it is because he is standing on a stack of dwarves.
                --Mike Champion, describing Tim Berners-Lee (adapted)

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